KABUL: An elderly Afghan cleric has been arrested after he married a six-year-old girl, officials said on Friday. Mohammad Karim, said to be aged around 60, claimed her parents gave him the girl as a “religious offering”, but the family of the girl reportedly said she was abducted.
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