Pakistani Hindu Girl Religion Change: A case has come to light in Pakistan’s Sindh province where a minor Hindu girl was kidnapped, married to an elderly man and then forcibly converted to Islam.
Community members gave this information on Thursday (September 12). This case came to light when another minor Hindu girl who was kidnapped from Hyderabad a day earlier was handed back to her family on Wednesday on the orders of the court after a year-long struggle.
Shiva Fakir Kachi, head of the Pakistan Darawar Ittehad organisation, said the 16-year-old girl was kidnapped from her village Hunguru on Wednesday and forcibly married to an older man who forcibly converted her to Islam. “The girl was taken to a madrassa near Samura area and married off. When the parents went to the madrassa to see her on Thursday, the maulvi refused to let them in,” Kachi said.
Hindu women are being forcibly married to Muslims
He further said, “It has now become a regular occurrence for Hindu families that their young daughters and sisters are forcibly taken to these places and converted and married to Muslim men.” A sessions court in Hyderabad on Wednesday ordered the reunification of a girl with her family, who was abducted from Hyderabad last year, converted and then married to a Muslim man.
That’s why Hindu women are easy targets
Kachi said that most Hindu families in Pakistan are poor, so their women are easy targets and when they are kidnapped, their families face challenges in ensuring their return due to lack of support from the government system. He said that his organization representing the Hindu community will take legal recourse to recover the kidnapped teenager.