{"id":10279,"date":"2025-08-01T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=10279"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:12:37","slug":"islamic-emirate-halts-forced-marriage-in-ghazni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/islamic-emirate-halts-forced-marriage-in-ghazni\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Emirate Halts Forced Marriage in Ghazni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GHAZNI(BNA): The Department Vice and Virtue in Ghazni province intervened to stop the forced marriage of a widowed woman, reportedly defusing a growing dispute between two families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement issued to Bakhtar News Agency, provincial officials said they acted swiftly after learning that a family in Ghazni city was attempting to arrange a marriage without the woman\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn investigation, our officers were able to halt the forced marriage and mediate a peaceful resolution to the conflict between the two families,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials praised the outcome, emphasizing that protecting Islamic values \u2014 including consent in marriage \u2014 is central to their mission. \u201cWe will continue our efforts to uphold Islamic principles and social justice within the community,\u201d the department said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GHAZNI(BNA): The Department Vice and Virtue in Ghazni province intervened to stop the forced marriage of a widowed woman, reportedly defusing a growing dispute between two families. In a statement issued to Bakhtar News Agency, provincial officials said they acted swiftly after learning that a family in Ghazni city was attempting to arrange a marriage [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}