AIBAK (Pajhwok): Government officials in northern Samangan prevented the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a 40-year-old man, who with the help of a local prayer leader (also called Mullah) arranged the marriage, an official said on Saturday.
Sirajuddin Fitrat, the Hazrat Sultan district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News Yasmin, 8, hailing from Khulm district of northern Balkh district was handed over by her father to Nasrullah to look after her as mother of the minor girl had died.
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