MUZAFFARABAD: A teenage girl from a remote village of Neelum valley on Tuesday threatened to end his life if her `nikah` solemnised during her infancy was not abrogated.

Noor Kaida, 17, was one-and-a-half months old when her father contracted her nikah as wali (guardian) with Danish Siddiqui, then a 10-year old, according to the local tribal customs in Phullawal and its adjacent villages.

Legal experts say a wall can get the nikah of a young child solemnised but on attaining puberty the child has the right to continue with that arrangement or dismiss it.

Talking to journalists here, Ms Kaida`s 27-year-old brother Aurangzeb said the nikah was contracted by their father (wali) verbally without documentary evidence. Now as she disapproves of the arrangement, the whole family is facing threats, he added.

Mr Aurangzeb claimed that his village was still being run by a Jirga system with one Muneebullah acting as the self-pro-claimed gazi (judge).

`They do not give importance to Sharia or local laws but to their tribal customs and traditions. Those disobeying their decisions face draconian punishments.

In 2012, Mr Siddiqui allegedly kidnapped a girl from Marnat village and Mr Muneebullah helped him tie the knot with her. Ever since, he has fathered three children from her, he claimed.

Early this year, Mr Siddiqui and his family pressed Ms Kaida`s family for her `rukhsati` in the light of the early age nikah but Ms Kaida refused to marry an already married person.

Surprisingly, in an area overwhelmed by orthodox beliefs, her parents and siblings also stood by her side.

`They (Mr Siddiqui`s family) attacked our house thrice in a bid to intimidate us into accepting their demand but we refused to succumb,` Mr Aurangzeb said.

In July, Ms Kaida`s family filed a case for her divorce (Khula) in the family court of district Neelum. The case is most likely to be decided later this month, according to her lawyer Mufti Mazhar.

But in the meanwhile, her family is scaredfor theirlives.Mr Aurangzeb said Muneebullah had decreed that any attempt for abrogation of the valid nikah was proscribed by Sharia (haram).

`I call upon the chief justices of supreme and high courts as well as the president and prime minister of Azad Kashmir to provide us security and justice,` he said.

Wearing a traditional black burqa, Ms Kaida silently heard her bother narrate her ordeal. However, she warned that she could take any extreme step if forced to marry Danish.

`I will end my life by jumping into the river,` she said.

Mr Aurangzeb claimed that there were tens of hundreds of similar cases in his area.

Last year, when a girl refused to marry a man with an identical history and got her nikah abrogated,she and her spouse had to face a fatwa of infidelity, he said.

That girl`s husband, Abdul Shakoor, was attacked and injured and the attackers are behind bars,he said.

`For God`s sake, enforce the law of the land in our area and rid us of these fatwa sellers,` said Mr Aurangzeb.