School expels Pakistani boy, 13, for getting married

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In Peshawar, Pakistan, a 13-year-old, Gherat Khan has taken his school to court after getting expelled. The boys wife is 16-years-old. Pakistan has no rules for underage marriage. The civil law states that a boy needs to be 18 and a girl 16 to get married. But Islamic law says they can as long as both the people have hit puberty and the parents approve of the marriage, then it can be performed. The reason the got married so young is that his father had passed away and his mother was sick. The family helped him to find a wife that could help with housework, but he does love her too. The school expelled him because they thought that he would share intimate details of married life with the other students. He only wants to finish his education so that he can become a doctor.

I believe that he should be able to go to that school. By not allowing him to attend the school, they are discriminating against him. He knows that he got married young, but he was trying to help out his mom. He got married because his mom is sick and his dad passed away. He needed someone to help him out with the housework since he wants to become a doctor. I can see why he wants to stay at that school because it's close to home and all of his friends are there. If I were Khan, I would first ask my family for help, then my neighbors, and then resort to marriage at the last measure. I'm glad that he found someone he loved, but he has to realize that she gave up her future to help out his. I believe that they both should wait on having children since they are both still children themselves. Also because they both have a lot of responsibilities with taking over all of the housework, school, and taking care Khan's mom.

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