The marriage of many couples has been in trouble due to excessive delay in the draft rules of Hindu marriage law by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in northwest Pakistan. Leaders of the same community said that the federal government approved the Hindu Marriage Bill in March 2017 with the consent of the governments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and gave them the necessary instructions to make the necessary rules. However, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government has not yet prepared the necessary rules for the law.

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Community leaders said that in the absence of constitutional protection many Hindu girls are deprived of their basic rights which they are entitled to in the event of divorce. There are about 38 lakh Hindus in Pakistan, which is about two percent of the population. According to sources, the federal government recently again directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government that the rules of Hindu marriage law should be prepared as soon as possible.

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Department of Religious and Minority Affairs of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa told the Union Government that since the marriage is registered by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local government under the Muslim Marriage Act, the local government has the responsibility that Rules are being prepared for the law. He said that despite the exchange of several official letters between the Department of Minority and Religious Affairs and the local government on this issue, the process of framing the rules of Hindu marriage law in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has not been initiated.

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The Sarpanch of Peshawar Harun Sarab Dayal said that the draft of the proposed law was prepared with the help of some social welfare organizations and lawyers, which was submitted to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, but no progress has been made so far is. He said that 18 cases of divorce of Hindu girls are going on in various courts in Peshawar. In the absence of appropriate legislation, the incidence of divorce from Hindu girls has increased. Most of the girls had to suffer in such cases.