KP govt to observe one-minute silence for Malala Yuosafzai

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government has decided to observe one-minute silence at 1200 hours to condemn the brutal attack on 14 years old peace award winner Malala Yuosafzai, said provincial Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain here on Thursday. Addressing to an event on "child marriage" here at Peshawar Press club, he said that all the clerics of "Oqaf" mosques have been asked to offere special prayers for early recovery of Malala and also condemn the terrorists in Jumma sermons. Early, addressing the participants of the programme, he said the KP government has drafted a proposal to fix 18 years age for the male and 16 years for the female to get marry, adding that a notification in this regard would soon issued.