'No plans to ban child marriage', PKR MPs take minister to task

PARLIAMENT | Eight PKR women MPs and a PKR senator have spoken up against the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry’s move against banning child marriage through legal amendments to raise the minimum age to 18 years old.

The lawmakers said existing measures to only “manage the issue” of child marriages goes against previous efforts to ban the practice.

The lawmakers included Pandan MP Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail...