Pakistan's Parliament has finally passed the much-awaited landmark bill to regulate marriages of minority Hindus in the country. Pakistan's Hindus were set to get an exclusive personal law to regulate marriages after the National Assembly unanimously adopted the Hindu Marriage Bill, 2017, on Thursday. The law was passed after a lengthy process of enactment. It …
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March 10, 2017Pakistan's Parliament has finally passed the much-awaited landmark bill to regulate marriages of minority Hindus in the country. Pakistan's Hindus were set to get an exclusive personal law to regulate marriages after the National Assembly unanimously adopted the Hindu Marriage Bill, 2017, on Thursday. The law was passed after a lengthy process of enactment. It …
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March 10, 2017Pakistani Hindu community will have a personal law for the first time as the Senate has passed 'The Hindu Marriage Bill 2017'. The bill, approved by the National Assembly on September 26, 2015 and passed on Friday, will likely get presidential assent next week to become a law, Dawn online reported. According to the bill, …
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February 18, 2017Pakistani Hindu community will have a personal law for the first time as the Senate has passed 'The Hindu Marriage Bill 2017'. The bill, approved by the National Assembly on September 26, 2015 and passed on Friday, will likely get presidential assent next week to become a law, Dawn online reported. According to the bill, …
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February 18, 2017After decades of delay and inaction, Pakistan government is expected to table the much- debated Hindu Marriage Bill at the next session of Parliament later this month, a media report said on Sunday. The landmark legislation, which seeks to give a legal framework to the marriages in minority community, is expected to address key issues …
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September 18, 2016The much-debated Hindu Marriage Bill has been tabled in Pakistan’s National Assembly. Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Ramesh Lal, one of the bill’s movers, said on Wednesday that it took around 10 months for a house panel to clear the bill and another six months for its report to be tabled in the house. …
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