More than 1,000 girls in Pakistan are kidnapped every year, forced to marry and convert to Islam.
Prime Minister Imran Khan says the practice must stop. And a parliamentary committee wants a law to stamp it out.
Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford reports.
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