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Pakistan News - According to information received by World News, Neha loved the hymns that filled her church with music. But she lost her chance to sing last year when, at the age of 14, she was forcibly converted to Islam from Christianity and married a 45-year-old man with children twice her age.
She tells her story in one voice
According to the information received by World News, this may occasionally subside. All of that disappears, as she wraps a blue scarf tightly around her face and head. Neha's husband is now in jail, facing rape charges for a young marriage, but she is terrified after security guards seize a pistol from her brother in court.
Neha said - he brought a gun to shoot me
According to World News, Neha is one of about 1,000 girls belonging to religious minorities who are forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan every year, mainly due to legal age and non-consensual marriages. To pave. Human rights activists say the practice intensified during the lockdown against coronaviruses, when girls are out of school and more visible, bride smugglers are more active on the Internet and families are more in debt.
The US State Department this month declared Pakistan a country of particular concern for its violation of religious freedom
According to information received by World News, a designation that the Pakistani government rejects. The declaration was based in part in an evaluation by the American Commission on Religious Freedom that girls in minority Hindu, Christian and Sikh communities were abducted for forcible conversion to Islam. Forcibly married and subjected to rape.
Most of the converted girls are Hindus removed from southern Sindh province.
Two new cases involving Christians, including Neha, have rocked the country in recent months. According to information received by World News, girls are usually abducted by complex acquaintances and relatives or men in search of a bride. Sometimes they are taken by powerful landlords as payment for the debt owed by their landlord parents, and the police often look the other way. Once converted, according to Pakistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, girls are married quickly, often to older men or their abductors.
Child protection workers say
Forced conversions go unchecked on a money-making web, including magistrates preventing marriages, magistrates who legalize unions and blame corrupt local police, who refuse to investigate or sabotage.
Jibran Nasir, an activist, called the network a mafia
According to information received from World News, who likes non-Muslim girls because they are the weakest and easiest targets. For older men with pedophilia. The goal is to protect virgin brides instead of looking for new converts to Islam. Minorities constitute only 3.6 percent of Pakistan's 220 million people and are often targets of discrimination. Those who report forcible conversions, for example, can be targeted with accusations of blasphemy.
In the feudal Kashmore region of southern Sindh province, 13-year-old Sonia Kumari was kidnapped
According to information received by World News, a day later the police told her parents that she had converted to Islam from Hinduism. Her mother pleaded for her return in a widely watched video on the Internet. For God's sake, Quran, whatever you believe, please return my daughter, she was forcibly taken from our home.
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