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GUJRANWALA, Nov 10: A majority of people have expressed disappointment over the abolition of Marriage Ordinance 1997, saying that the Punjab government should promulgate alternative laws to prohibit wasteful expenses on marriage.
In interviews with this reporter, poor and middle class people said the ordinance had suited their interests as it prohibited all wasteful expenses on marriage ceremonies. They said the poor could not afford lavish marriage ceremonies, specially those who also had to arrange dowry of their daughters. The members of various religious parties had also favoured the Marriage Ordinance, they recalled. — Correspondent
