Pakistan: 1,000 Hindu and Christian ladies transformed to Islam yearly, says activist

The Islamic nation of Pakistan has grow to be a hotbed of violence in opposition to ladies, particularly these belonging to minority Hindu, Christian and Sikh communities. Ashiknaz Khokhar, a human rights activist has famous that the kidnapping of minor ladies from non secular minorities is a typical prevalence in Pakistan. She has mentioned that over 1,000 ladies belonging to Hindu and Christian communities are forcefully transformed to Islam yearly in Pakistan.
Human Rights activist Ashiknaz Khokhar has additionally mentioned that the federal government of Pakistan just isn’t taking the menace severely. According to media stories, Khokhar mentioned, “The (Pakistan) government is not taking this issue seriously and parliament recently refused to pass the bill on forced conversion”. Saying that over 1,000 minority ladies are kidnapped yearly, she mentioned that there was a dire want for a selected regulation to guard minority ladies in Pakistan.
The statements by Khokhar comes as one other 12 12 months previous Christian lady was kidnapped within the Punjab province of Pakistan. Reportedly, 12 12 months previous Meerab Abbas was taken by Muhammad Daud, a local of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. 
The newest report has acknowledged that round 6,754 ladies had been kidnapped within the nation’s Punjab province within the first half of 2021. Out of these, 1,890 ladies had been raped, 3,721 had been tortured and 752 youngsters had been raped. The contemporary report got here on 30 August after the board of Trustees of Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) flagged its issues over the growing assaults on ladies within the nation.
A 2019 discipline investigation report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has reaffirmed an disagreeable actuality that’s already identified for a lot too lengthy—minorities in Pakistan stay underneath fixed concern of persecution as their perpetrators get pleasure from courtroom sanctions, help from the influential and prosperous part of the society and patronage from political leaders.
Political patronage to conversions emboldened perpetrators and normalised violence and persecution of Hindus in Pakistan 
The Commission within the 2019 report discovered that the districts of Ghotki and Daharki had been among the many most affected by the scourge of rampant conversions was as a result of they had been business-oriented cities and had been, subsequently, accessible to commerce routes and networks of madrassas. As a consequence, there was appreciable political affect in these districts, which the victims mentioned performed a component in normalising and legitimising the unceasing incidents of abductions and conversions of Hindu ladies within the area. 
The perpetrators usually tended to focus on non-Muslims and loved political help because of the state’s financial curiosity within the native areas. The companies of non-Muslims had been additionally focused in the event that they went in opposition to Muslim residents for the kidnapping and conversion of their daughters into Islam.