Adulterer punished with betrothal of infant niece

A PAKISTANI village council has punished a 20-year-old man for adultery by ordering the betrothal of his two-year-old niece to the husband of the woman with whom he had the alleged affair.

Tribal elders also ordered Mohammed Akmal to pay a 2,900 fine to the woman’s husband, who has since divorced his wife.

Police said that the council in the Punjab village of Kacha Chohan decreed that the two-year-old girl would be married to Mohammed Altaf when she reached 18.