Addo Baddo
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Addo Baddo (Urdu: اڈو بڈو) is custom in tribal regions and rural areas of Pakistan where two families agree to marry their daughters to boys of other clans when they are children.
Most women get married between the ages of 13-16, although the Child Marriages Restraint Act makes it illegal for girls under the age of 16 to be married off by their parents or guardians. The majority of men were aged between 18-25 at the age of marriage. Occasionally an exchange of sisters addo baddo is arranged. Marriages are often organized by the village elders when the prospective spouses are children – the practice is called Pait Likkhi (Pait means stomach and Likkhi means written; literally written on stomach) and solemnized years later. All villagers stress that these marriage customs are Muslim and the rights and obligations of husband and wife followed Sharia, Islamic religious laws.
