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  • Mob forces Punjabi girl, 9, into marriage to punish father

    03/30/2008 5:07:34 PM PDT · by forkinsocket · 26 replies · 1,457+ views
    Timesonline.co.uk ^ | March 30, 2008 | Dean Nelson and Nadeem Mushtaq Burewala
    A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl in Pakistan has been forced to marry a man of 24 to punish her father for eloping with a neighbour’s daughter. Nazia Nawaz, who lives in the village of Babrianwala in rural Punjab, described last week how a mob of 30 men, led by a mullah and the local council, stormed her family home and demanded that she and her seven-year-old sister marry two male relatives to settle the dispute. The forced marriage of Nazia to her adult cousin had just been completed when other family members arrived to stop the wedding of her younger sister, Shazia....