Pakistan
Practice Relating to Rule 137. Participation of Child Soldiers in Hostilities
In 2001, in its second periodic report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Pakistan stated: “Only persons over the age of 18 years can take part in hostilities.”
In 2008, in its combined third and fourth periodic reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Pakistan stated that “only persons over the age of 18 years can take part in hostilities”.