A minor Hindu lady was kidnapped and compelled to marry an older man who transformed her to Islam in Pakistan’s Sindh province, information company PTI quoted the group members as saying on Thursday. The case got here to gentle barely a day after one other juvenile Hindu lady kidnapped in Hyderabad was returned to her household on court docket orders on Wednesday following a year-long ordeal, in accordance with the PTI report.
Based on Shiva Faqir Kaachi, the top of Pakistan Darawar Ittehad, the 16-year-old lady was kidnapped from her village in Hunguru on Wednesday and compelled to marry a a lot older man who transformed her to Islam.
“The lady was taken to a seminary close to the Samura space and married off. When the mother and father went to the seminary on Thursday to see her, the cleric refused to allow them to in,” Kaachi mentioned to PTI.
“It has now turn out to be a daily prevalence for Hindu households to see their younger daughters and sisters forcibly taken away and transformed to be married off to Muslim males in these locations,” he mentioned.
On Wednesday, a classes court docket in Hyderabad ordered a teenage lady to be reunited together with her household after she was kidnapped from Hyderabad, transformed after which married off to a Muslim man final yr.
Kaachi famous that since most Hindu households in Pakistan are poor, their ladies are simple targets and when they’re kidnapped, their households face vital challenges in securing their return on account of a scarcity of help from the system.
He mentioned his organisation, which represents the Hindu group, will pursue a authorized recourse to get well the kidnapped teenage lady.
“How lengthy it should take, nobody is aware of. However we are going to proceed to battle this injustice and crime,” Kaachi mentioned.
In an identical incident, a Hindu lady, who was kidnapped simply three days after her marriage, grabbed headlines in January 2022. She was allegedly transformed to Islam and married to a Muslim man however she managed to flee after 14 months. The police introduced her dwelling however after a couple of months, she was kidnapped once more and is but to be recovered.
