Public and media pressure and threat of action by the police forced a 45-year-old man , to divorce a four-year-old child whom he had married under a tribal custom in Dera Ismail Khan.
A local panchayat ordered and solemnised the marriage as part of a dispute settlement under the ‘vani’ custom.
Local police arrested 13 people, including members of a panchayat, which had ordered the marriage.
Those arrested included Mahboob, the man to whom the girl was married, Alamsher, the girl's father and Saifur Rehman, the panchayat leader.
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