Pakistani hindu woman speaks of forced conversion, denial to lodge FIR of rape, trafficking

[Paranoid Android]

Why are so many minorities fleeing Pakistan. What is it actually like on the ground. Are they being prevented from practicing their faith in peace without death threats and attacks?

Pakistani Christians, Shias and Ahmadis are coming to Sri Lanka and Pakistani Hindus seem to be going to India.

Don't talk like that.They get offended..

 

[Echo_419]

Woman speaks of forced conversion, denial to lodge FIR of rape, trafficking - Pakistan - DAWN.COM


KARACHI: How women of marginalised communities are suffering at the hands of influential people and the state has turned a blind eye towards their misery came to light at a press conference held on Friday.

Emmi, 30, and resident of Thatta city, is now looking for justice with the help of a non-governmental body providing legal aid to women and child survivors of violence and abuse.

Ironically, however, the police have not only refused to register an FIR on one pretext or another but also sexually harassed her. There is no action from the government side either that has been informed in writing about the case, according to her.

“When I took my complaint to the Thatta police, nobody took me seriously and the staff there started laughing. I was told to go to the house of DSP Makli for FIR’s registration,” said Emmi at the press conference organised by Madadgaar Helpline in its office.

She accused the police official of sexually harassing her. “I have been exploited for eight years and demand justice,” she said as tears rolled down her face.

Emmi’s troubles started when she became friendly with a man over the phone in 2008. The man that she identified as Shahbaz, a resident of Mirpur Sakro, later convinced her to meet him outside her house and kidnapped her with the help of another man, Ramzan.

“They took me to an unknown place where I was confined in a dark room for 20 days, beaten and raped. Then I was sold and taken to Nawabshah,” she said.

In Nawabshah, Emmy was forced to sign some papers to convert her from Hinduism to Islam and arrange her fake marriage with Javed Khaskheli who forced her into prostitution. She attempted twice to escape and was punished.

“I was burnt and initially admitted to a hospital in Nawabshah and later to the Combined Military Hospital in Hyderabad.

I was told that I should identify myself as the wife of Javed,” she told journalists, adding that she was also poisoned by his tormentors.

According to her, she spent about six years in Hyderabad in confinement during which she also met three girls brought for prostitution. She finally managed to escape on the second day of Eid and reached her home in Thatta. It came as a shock to her that her father, the only close relative he had, died following her kidnapping.

“With the help of a friend, I came to a court in Karachi where someone suggested that I should seek help from Madadgaar,” she explained.

She also showed a picture and the national identity card of one of his tormentors to media persons during the briefing.

Giving his remarks, Advocate Zia Awan said his organisation prepared a case for the victim and also contacted relevant police officials in this regard. But the police were not willing to register the case.

“On Thatta police’s insistence that the case didn’t fall in their jurisdiction and that the Mirpur Sakro police should be contacted, we asked the victim to go to the latter. But they also refused to register the case. Both police stations have accepted the complaint, though,” he said.

According to Mr Awan, it was after his NGO received no positive reply from the government side, including minister for culture Sharmila Faruqui, that it decided to highlight the case in the media.

“We have contacted police officials and a sitting minister to take action but all our attempts have been futile. What else an NGO could do. We are not a state,” he said in reply to a question.

“State inaction and justice denial is also a kind of terrorism. We want this case to be seriously investigated and culprits punished,” he said, adding that a number of cases had brought to his knowledge in recent months in which women were trafficked and used for prostitution.

The women, he said, were taken to Afghanistan via Balochistan.

“This case is just the tip of the iceberg. Most cases go unreported. In cases that reach us, often the victims are reluctant to talk to the media. There is a dire need to make the police and the justice system efficient,” he said.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2015

They deserve this

 

[flameboard]

i would recommend you compare rape crime stats of India with that of so called developed countries. only because our media keep bitching endlessly about rape crimes and consider them as "masala news" doesnt pro trays real picture. i am sure that thousands of rape cases go unreported in pakistan because it lacks basic infrastructure, places like fata nad nwfp are examples.



lol, and even muslims are not safe in 'islamic republic of pakistan' read my previous post

I don't claim everyone in Pakistan is safe. It's even a problem in Pakistan. But India has been in the top ten rape rates in world consistently for many years. One of the biggest problems in India when women try reporting rapes is that people blame the women, and you're continuing that trend here by blaming the victim again. Clearly you're too immature to have a grown up conversation about this.

 

[nForce]

Let them be where they are. They are not Indians and it is not our problem. They have a choice, their forefathers had a choice.

 

[Srinivas]

Minorities have separate laws in Islamic republics, they should migrate to safer places if they feel persecuted.
When minorities are discriminated and are seen below par with main stream they fall prey to some elements of society, in case of Pakistan state setup itself is no different.

These sort of crimes happen every where but in Islamic republics the perpetrators can get away since it is muslims vs infidels.

 

[MilSpec]

Not a concern for India. Pakistani Hindus's situation is Pakistan's problem and we wish the government of Pakistan all the success in resolving this problem (if any exist).
What has always been slightly perplexing is, that a nation formed for political representation of it's muslim minorities of the sub-continent conveniently forgets to constitutionally safeguard it's own minorities and instead chooses to constitutionally discriminate it's minorities.

 

[wowler]

Lol so there are some minorities still left.
But no problem they will also come to india as others are doing.
Bookmarked it.

 

[utraash]

instead chooses to constitutionally discriminate it's minorities.

That was bound to happen when religiously coated nationalism had taken over everything......
On topic
It was such appalling tale that I wish it should not happen to any human(women) be it Pakistani, Indian or any one else ..... May god give this brave lady strength to book the culprits.... Those moron rot in hell...
@WAJsal .....

 

[Devil Soul]

Feel sorry for the gal & I hope she gets justice & those behind this act are punished.. For trolls.."People sitting in glass house should not throw stones @ others..'

 

[WAJsal]

That was bound to happen when religiously coated nationalism had taken over everything......

I disagree, this is all thanks a very poor system and people who run it. Religion has nothing to do with it. If these arseholes were so religious they would know forced conversions in not allowed in Islam and is a sin. As long as a person doesn't accept Islam by heart he isn't a Muslim. a very sad news, indeed.

It was such appalling tale that I wish it should not happen to any human(women) be it Pakistani, Indian or any one else ..... May god give this brave lady strength to book the culprits.... Those moron rot in hell...

Agreed. Note: These people are no different than the likes of ISIS, they don't know the basic's of Islam. Islam teaches us to respect all religion. Rape is a very serious sin, literally a shame.

forgets to constitutionally safeguard it's own minorities and instead chooses to constitutionally discriminate it's minorities.

If it was the case, nothing was deliberate.

These sort of crimes happen every where but in Islamic republics the perpetrators can get away since it is muslims vs infidels.

People like you are the ones fueling the fire, FIR was allowed to be lodged, she will be treated like every other person. Police should catch the perpetrators.

Cry babies. They should either emigrate to India or put up with the natural consequences in their place silently.

Stop generalizing, this doesn't happen to every Hindu women, or something that is very common. These sort of comments give you a bad image.

 

[Srinivas]

People like you are the ones fueling the fire, FIR was allowed to be lodged, she will be treated like every other person. Police should catch the perpetrators.

I won't be surprised if the same person come infront of cameras and say she is happy becoming a muslim and marrying a mard-e-momin.

Read the case properly dude people laughed when she went to complain and register FIR initially.

 

[WAJsal]

I won't be surprised if the same person come infront of cameras and say she is happy becoming a muslim and marrying a mard-e-momin.

Read the case properly dude people laughed when she went to complain and register FIR initially.

Key word: if*.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Stop generalizing, this doesn't happen to every Hindu women, or something that is very common. These sort of comments give you a bad image.

To be very honest, I was mimicking a moderator of this forum. I don't see him often here though. Not Bhopali saab.

Secondly - I do honestly believe that you have moral issues with forced conversions. But clearly most don't. So yes, in the end, I would like them to come over here. Our people are not great and the Government not very accommodating, but still it will be worth giving a shot. At least they will get some support from the Right wing here. That is better than nothing. Don't you think?

 

[WAJsal]

I do honestly believe that you have moral issues with forced conversions. But clearly most don't. So yes, in the end, I would like them to come over here. Our people are not great and the Government not very accommodating, but still it will be worth giving a shot. At least they will get some support from the Right wing here. That is better than nothing. Don't you think?

Hindu communities are doing fine, thank you. These sort of incidents are isolated and not very common, now is it? i am sure something like this happened in India, with Indian Muslim. It doesn't give us right to generalize.

I do honestly believe that you have moral issues with forced conversions

Every Muslim should. Forced conversions is not allowed in Islam and an obvious sin.