Last Updated: March 31, 2023, 03:56 IST
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s report, round 1,000 women are forcibly transformed to Islam yearly. (Getty)
The protest exterior the Karachi Press Club and on the entrance of the Sindh Assembly constructing was organised by Pakistan Darawar Ittehad, a Hindu organisation
Several members of the minority Hindu group held a protest march in Pakistan’s Karachi metropolis on Thursday to attract consideration to the menace of pressured conversions and marriages of Hindu women and girls within the nation.
The protest exterior the Karachi Press Club and on the entrance of the Sindh Assembly constructing was organised by Pakistan Darawar Ittehad (PDI), a Hindu organisation.
“We wanted to highlight this big problem facing the Sindhi Hindus, especially in the rural areas where our young girls, some as young as 12 and 13 are abducted in broad daylight, forced to convert to Islam and then married off to older Muslim men,” a member of the PDI mentioned.
He mentioned the protest on Thursday had left some influence as many individuals weren’t even conscious of this crime however admitted they had been anticipating an even bigger turnout.
The protest went off peacefully with a big quantity of policemen standing at a distance from the protesters.
The protesters carried placards and banners which urged the federal government to cross a stalled invoice in opposition to the pressured conversion of Hindu women and girls.
In current months there was a surge in such instances in inside Sindh with the decrease courts flooded with functions from affected mother and father in search of justice and the return of their daughters, sisters and wives.
Unfortunately, no consultant from the provincial authorities got here out to hearken to the pleas of the protesters who dispersed peacefully.
In 2019, the problem of abducting and forcible conversion of Hindu women in numerous districts of Sindh province was taken up within the Sindh Assembly.
A decision was debated and unanimously handed after it was modified over objections of sure lawmakers that it shouldn’t be restricted to solely Hindu women.
But the invoice, which criminalised forcible spiritual conversions was later rejected within the meeting. An analogous invoice was once more proposed, but it surely bought rejected in 2021.
In January this yr, as many as 12 United Nations rights consultants expressed alarm over the rising incidents of kidnapping, pressured conversions and marriages of women as younger as 13 in Pakistan.
Forced conversion and compelled marriages are prohibited in Islam.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s report, round 1,000 women are forcibly transformed to Islam yearly.
Hindus kind the most important minority group in Pakistan.
According to official estimates, 75 lakh Hindus reside within the Muslim-majority nation.
Muslims account for about 96 per cent of Pakistan’s 207 million inhabitants, Hindus 2.1 per cent and Christians about 1.6 per cent in line with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimates.
The majority of Pakistan’s Hindu inhabitants is settled in Sindh province the place they share tradition, traditions and language with their Muslim residents.
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