Italian authorities has deported 25-year-old Pakistani imam Ali Kashif after he was secretly filmed defending child marriage, saying that girls as young as nine could marry adult men under Islamic law.
He said it was “tradition,” the Quran allows it, and a girl is ready after her first period.
Kashif, who had lived in Italy for approximately six years and occasionally served as an imam at two Islamic centers in Brescia, was exposed during an undercover investigation by the Italian television program Fuori dal Coro, broadcast on January 25, 2026.
Kashif was escorted by immigration officers to Milan Malpensa Airport and placed on a flight to Islamabad, Pakistan, via Bangkok.
