Pakistan’s agenda of forced conversions goes unabated. Recently , a case violating human rights came to light when a 22-year-old Arti Bai, a Hindu girl was abducted on Saturday in Pak’s Larkana, and was forced to convert to Islam and married off to a Muslim boy.
On Friday, April 9, Karachi-based journalist Veengas tweeted a video of the Hindu community protesting for justice for the abducted girl’s parents. According to the witnesses, the local court did not allow parents to meet their daughters.
The victim’s father Dr Namo Mal, narrated that his daughter went missing after leaving home for the beauty parlour where she works.
More and more Hindus are targeted, attacked and forced to convert to Islam. Not just that, even Hindu temples are massacred and kidnappings of Hindu girls are becoming a common incident in Pakistan these days.
Out of the 1,300 pre-Partition temples, Pakistan now has only 30 operational temples. In December 2020, Samuel Brownback, a top US diplomat for religious liberty, stated that Pakistan is marketing Hindu and Christian women to China as “concubines” and “forced brides.”
In March 2021, a 31-year-old journalist from Pakistan’s minority Hindu community was assassinated by unidentified assailants for exposing the role of politicians and clerics in forcible conversions.
