Huma Younas was just 14 when she was taken from her home in Karachi in October last year. She was transported 600km to the Punjab region, where she was forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her captor.

A court in Karachi refused to intervene as it accepted the claims of her legal husband, Abdul Jabbar, that she is 18 and willingly consented to marriage.

Since then, a new hearing has been set to consider the official record of her birth.

John Newton of Aid to the Church in Need says this news is hopeful, but the courts might find other reasons to delay.

The girl is now pregnant.

Her Lawyer, Tabassum Yousaf, said her only hope might rest with an appeal to the Supreme Court of Pakistan.