A court in Pakistan has annulled the marriage of a Christian teenager forced to accept a Muslim man as her husband from the age of just 11 years old.
The ordeal of Shahida Bibi, 18, began when her mother eloped with a Muslim man who “gave” her to his brother.
She was forced into marriage and conversion to Islam and bore two children before she contested the arrangement at a civil court in Bahawalpur.
In a landmark decision, the court issued a decree in favour of Bibi, order her marriage to be dissolved and that new identification documents be issued declaring her religion to be Christianity instead of Islam.
