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MNA-underage girl marriage reports denied
Local organization had lodged an FIR with the Chitral City police station on February 16
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PESHAWAR:
Chitral police have submitted its enquiry report to the Commission on the status of women in which it claimed that the reports of the marriage of an underage girl Safia Ayaz to the 60 year old Salahuddin in Chitral are baseless.
A local organization Dawat-e-Azeemat Chitral had lodged an FIR with the Chitral City police station on February 16 in which it stated that the marriage ceremony of an underage girl is being solemnized with an aged person of Balochistan (MNA Salahuddin Ayubi) through a middle man.