Abduction, forced conversion of Hindu girls in Pakistan continues

New Delhi: Twenty-two-year outdated Aarti Chawla is the most recent sufferer of alleged oppression by the bulk Muslim neighborhood on the hapless Hindu girls. She was allegedly kidnapped by a manufacturing unit employee Mohammad Fawad who married her after changing her to Islam.

Aarti alias Ayesha is now in Dar ul Aman, Larkana, a metropolis in Sindh province of Pakistan, and has even refused to acknowledge her members of the family. 

According to Facebook web page of All Pakistan Hindu Panchyat (APHP) 9 Hindu girls, together with Aarti, had been allegedly kidnapped in the previous eight weeks. 
Seven Hindu girls had been transformed to Islam and married to Muslim males twice or thrice their age.  

The repeated incidents of abduction, conversion and marrying off the Hindu girls with Muslim males had created panic among the many minority Hindu neighborhood that expects Imran Khan-led authorities to take stringent measures to forestall such incidents to infuse a way of security and safety amongst them. 

Following Aarti’s abduction, the APHP has floated an concept of constituting a committee comprising of retired judges, outstanding Hindu leaders together with non secular ones to solely examine whether or not the girls from the minority neighborhood are willingly embracing Islam and marrying Muslim males or not and thus act accordingly. 

While expressing concern over endless incidents of conversion of Hindu girls to Islam, Kheal Das Kohistani, Pakistan Muslim League (N), Member National Assembly (MNA) advised media that in 2019 a Parliamentary Committee to Protect Minorities from Forced Conversions was constituted underneath Senator Anwarul Haq Kakar.  

The Committee was nonetheless in course of of doing the groundwork earlier than drafting a Bill to type a legislation to forestall the forced conversions, stated Kohistani.  

Stating that Aarti had been discovered by the police and despatched to Dar ul Aman, Kohistani, additional stated it was a short lived aid and never an answer for the reason that minority communities lived in fixed worry of some ‘mishap’ with the younger girls.  

In the latest previous, Pakistan Hindu Council led by Pak Hindu MNA Ramesh Kumar Vankwani had penned down an settlement with Islamist clerics together with Pir Mohammad Ayub Jan Sarhandi and Mian Mitha to carry a joint assembly with the woman who embraces Islam or together with her dad and mom in addition to with the Muslim males with whom she ties a nuptial knot however that settlement has additionally didn’t yield any fascinating end result.