Pakistan 捜し出すs to 抑制（する） child, 軍隊d marriages with harsher 罰
By Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio
ISLAMABAD, Feb 7 (Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎) - Pakistan has 無法者d child marriage and toughened 刑罰，罰則s for those 有罪の of the 罪，犯罪 in an 成果／努力 to 割れ目 負かす／撃墜する on the practice which is 概算の to 影響する／感情 one in five girls in the country.
The 法律制定 passed by the 国家の 議会, or lower house of 議会, on Monday, also 禁止（する）s 軍隊d marriage 伴う／関わるing women from 少数，小数派 groups.
Under the new 法律, 違反者／犯罪者s will 直面する a 最小限 of five years in 刑務所，拘置所 and may serve up to 10 years. They also 直面する a 罰金 of up to 1 million rupees ($9,547).
Before the change in 法律, 違反者／犯罪者s 直面するd a 最小限 of three years in 刑務所，拘置所 and a 罰金 of 500,000 rupees.
"The 罰 has been made harsher in the 法律 ... ーするために 完全に 抑制（する） the social maladies which have risen because of the いっそう少なく stringent 罰 and 罰金s," 連邦の 法律 and Human 権利s 大臣 Zahid Hamid told Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎 by telephone.
によれば the U.N. children's 機関 UNICEF, around 21 パーセント of girls in Pakistan are married before the age of 18.
Nearly 4 パーセント of Pakistan's 全住民 of 202 million people are not イスラム教徒, によれば the 中央情報局 Factbook.
Social and gender 不平等, a 願望（する） to 支配（する）／統制する women's sexuality and pr otect family honour 同様に as poverty are some of the factors 運動ing child marriage in Pakistan, によれば advocacy group Girls Not Brides.
"Large-規模 認識／意識性 about the 決定的な 法律 and now about its 改正s is 重要な to make the 法律 a success," said Mahpara Shakil Ghauri, a 上級の 公式の／役人 at Aurat 創立／基礎, a charity 促進するing women's 権利s.
地元の advocacy group, the Society for the 保護 of the 権利s of the Child (SPARC), 見積（る）s that almost 58 パーセント of girls are child brides in 田舎の areas.
SPARC's 議長，司会を務める Humera Malik said it was a 関心 that civil society organisations' 需要・要求する to 増加する the age of marriage to 18 from 16 had been ignored in the new 法律.
"Raising the age of the girl to 18, the same as that of a boy was long-standing 需要・要求する of the child and women 権利s organization in the country. But it's really disappointing the age 問題／発行する have been left untouched," Malik told the Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎.
($1 = 104.7500 Pakistani rupees) (Editing by Katie Nguyen. Please credit the Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers 人道的な news, women's 権利s, trafficking, 所有物／資産／財産 権利s and 気候 change. Visit http://news.信用.org to see more stories)
