KARACHI:The Sindh Health Department on Tuesday has formed 10-member medical board to determine the age of Dua Zehra

The ten-member medical board will be headed by Saba Sohail, Principal of Dow Medical College and it will be the largest-ever medical board in Pakistan’s history. A meeting of the Medical Board has also been convened on June 29 at Services Hospital Karachi. The board comprises experts of radiology, gynaecology, dentistry and forensics.

A judicial magistrate in Karachi had ordered the formation of a medical board to ascertain the age of Dua Zehra, a resident of Karachi who had gone missing from the city some months ago and later found to have got married with Zaheer Ahmad of Punjab.

A medical test ordered by the Sindh High Court had found that Dua was 17. The SHC later ruled that Dua, who claims she had contracted marriage of her own accord, was free to decide to live with her husband or parents.

Later, her father, Mehdi Kazmi, challenged the SHC verdict in the Supreme Court where his petition was disposed of. Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar asked the petitioner if they had challenged Dua’s medical report. The three-member bench had further told Kazmi to approach the relevant forums for the formation of a medical board to determine his daughter’s age.