Child brides blot tribal Pakistan - Al Jazeera English
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Child marriage - known as “swara” in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, “vani” in Punjab, “sang chati” in Sindh, and “vani” and “lajai” in Balochistan - are enacted in disturbingly large swathes of Pakistan and reinforced by customs that treat women as commodities.