Pakistan approves Hindu marriage bill.

 Pakistan Hindu minority community will soon have a marriage law as a parliamentary panel has unanimously approved the Hindu Marriage Bill after decades of delay and in action.The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law and Justice passed the final draft of Hindu Marriage Bill 2015.

Committee Chairman Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk adopted the bill unanimously after making two amendments to fix the minimum age of the marrying male and female at 18 and making the law applicable to the whole country.

Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have passed the requisite resolutions, but the Sindh and Punjab assemblies have not yet done so.