AIBAK (Pajhwok): A total of 143 couples entered into wedlock at a mass marriage ceremony solemnised by some businessmen in this capital city of northern Samangan province on Monday, participants said.
A resident of Aibak city, Haji Abdul Qudos, told Pajhwok Afghan News the ceremony was financially supported by 34 businessmen who belonged to Samangan but currently living abroad.
Around 6,000 guests, relatives of the grooms and the brides took part in the ceremony, he said.
A religious scholar, Mualvi Abdul Jabbar, in his address to the ceremony said such mass marriages . . .
