Abduction, pressured non secular conversion of Hindu women continues unabated in Pakistan

The abduction and compelled conversion of Hindu women continues in Pakistan. 

A resident of Malhi village of Sindh’s Tharparkar district, Ishwar Bheel, stated that his 20-year-old daughter Guddi Bheel was kidnapped by Sikhander Bajeer of Tando Adam Naukot of Mirpur-Khason on March 8 whereas coming back from the hospital the place she had gone to gather fever medicines for her brother. He stated that she had been pressured to embrace Islam and compelled to signal and submit a sworn affidavit addressed to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mirpur Khas, claiming that she transformed to Islam on her free will and was not pressurized or pressured to take action. 

In one other incident of a Hindu minor woman being kidnapped and police refusing to register a case, Veero Kolhia resident of Talho Malho village of Umerkot stated that his minor daughter was kidnapped by influential folks of his village by giving her some comfortable drinks laced with intoxicants. 

He additional stated that regardless of repeated pleas, police refused to register a lacking case. 

Three different instances of kidnapping and compelled conversions of minor Hindu women had been reported in March 2023. 

While Meena Butt (14) was kidnapped from close to her house in Mavomehhwar, Mirpurkhas and married to kidnapper Abdur after conversion at Barchundi Sharif Dargah (Gotki), Sangita Kumari (16) of Karachi was married to her kidnapper after being pressured to embrace Islam at Karachi’s Sufi Darbar. Krishna Bheel (13) was kidnapped from Mirpurkhas whereas coming back from college. The Mirpur Khas police refused to register the lacking criticism saying that she will need to have eloped along with her boyfriend, stated her father Dasram Bheel. 

Meanwhile, on Monday, greater than 100 social activists from totally different districts of Pakistan’s Sindh and Punjab provinces protested towards the kidnapping and compelled conversions of minor women from minority, particularly Hindu communities, in an occasion titled “Aurat” organized in Karachi. 

Several activists in the course of the occasion talked about atrocities towards ladies and the apathy proven by the federal government authorities in direction of such incidents. 

The audio system claimed that whereas police authorities refuse to file FIRs in kidnapping instances, medical and authorized authorities connive to declare underage women as main and eligible for marriage. 

Karachi-based activist Birma Jeswani stated that such incidents of kidnapping of minors, declaring them as main after which pressured conversion have been rampant in Sindh for greater than a decade and known as for a direct finish to such incidents.

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