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Al Jazeera did it again and shown herself to be highly worthy of esteem. The Muslims always pretend to be victim but all evidence show many Muslims believe they can please Allah by committing kidnap and rape. This is not individual caste but institutional and systemic.

RIght now Muslim still keep ranting Israel discriminate Islam, France discriminate Islam, Islam is victim..etc.

Forced conversions torment Pakistan's Hindus - Features - Al Jazeera English

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About two months ago, a Muslim businessman approached Dharmo Sochi and put a gun to his head, demanding his Hindu daughter's hand in marriage.

The businessman, Jameel Solangi, allegedly threatened the family with abduction and murder unless they acquiesced.

Sochi's 16-year-old daughter, Madhuri, had previously been harassed by Solangi but was too traumatised to tell the family about it, according to her aunt, Sri Devi.

"Dharmo dared him to shoot," Sri Devi told Al Jazeera. "He thought it better to die than allow this unholy union between Hindu and Muslim. Somehow we pushed Solangi out of the house and no one was hurt."

From that day onwards, Madhuri - who works as a panhandler, the traditional profession for women from her Sochi caste - was too fearful to leave the house.

Pakistan is home to about two million Hindus, most of whom live in the southern province of Sindh and belong to lower castes, including Sochi. While upper-caste Hindus complain of their traders being kidnapped for ransom, lower-caste Hindus say their daughters are being targeted.

"Our community can bear looting and the kidnapping of our men, but the abduction of our daughters and wives is too painful," Bhawan Das, who holds a National Assembly seat reserved for minorities, told Al Jazeera.

"Unfortunately, the frequency of these crimes is increasing due to religious extremism."

According to a report from the Movement for Solidarity and Peace, about 1,000 non-Muslim girls are converted to Islam each year in Pakistan. Every month, an estimated 20 or more Hindu girls are abducted and converted, although exact figures are impossible to gather, said Amarnath Motumal, the vice chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).

In Madhuri's case, Solangi claims to love the young woman and does not understand why she refused to marry him.

"Right now she goes from house to shop begging for charity," he told Al Jazeera. "I can provide her with so much more."

Asked why he threatened to shoot Madhuri's father, he said: "What else am I supposed to do? I can't give up on her."

While religion appears to be a secondary issue for Solangi, it is a chief concern for Madhuri, who would have to convert if she married a Muslim.

"I'm terrified he will kidnap me, force me to accept Islam and marry him," she told Al Jazeera. "He is not Hindu. I will die before I marry him."

'Vulnerable'

HRCP chairperson Zohra Yusuf said Muslim girls in Pakistan are also abducted and married against their will or sold into prostitution.

However, "if you compare the number of kidnapped Hindu and Muslim girls, in relation to their population in Pakistan, you will see that Hindus are more vulnerable" - especially poorer ones such as Madhuri.

The HRCP doesn't have a research to back its claim. No other organisation has the statistics on it because a large majority of the crimes go unreported.

One official who wished to remain anonymous said that the HRCP has been planning to do a countrywide survey of abducted girls in the last 10 years, "but it's not high on the priority list".

The Meghwar community, low-caste Hindus living on Hyderabad's Kali Road, are also said to face discrimination.

Amar Meghwar, a community activist, said such cases are rarely reported to the police because "our screams fall on deaf ears".

Sanaullah Abbassi, Deputy Inspector General of Police for Hyderabad told Al Jazeera: "We do what we can. Sometimes the girls run away by choice, what can we do in such cases?"

Sumbal Bai, a Hindu worker at a local thread-making factory, said her daughter, Sanam, was abducted two years ago at the age of 18.

"One of Sanam's co-workers, a Muslim boy, drugged her into unconsciousness and whisked her to Khanewal, Punjab," she told Al Jazeera.

When Sanam's father and brother attempted to rescue her, they discovered the abductors had financial clout and political connections.

"We have nobody to fall back on," Sumbal Bai said. "We have lost one daughter and we risk losing another if we make too much noise."

Sindh province's top police official Sharjeel Kharral, told Al Jazeera that the lower tier of the police force is not sensitised to the discrimination faced by Hindus.

"It's true that they don't prioritise the community without pressure from the media or civil society."

Kharral said Hindus in Pakistan are a scared and vulnerable minority and forced conversion is an example of their vulnerability, especially when it occurs to their women.

"The problem is that while some cases are actually forced conversions, others are love marriages and there is no way for us to differentiate between them."

With little support from authorities as well as civil society, thousands of Hindus are forced flee to neighbouring India.

Marriage facilitation

Some Muslim leaders consider it an honour to convert non-Muslim girls.

Muslim cleric Mian Abdul Malik - who leads the Bharchundi Sharif Shrine, famous for conversions of young Hindu girls - discounted the complaints of the Hindu community.

"There's no such thing as forced conversions in Islam and in Pakistan," he told Al Jazeera.

This year, Malik has converted two Hindu men and 15 Hindu women. Asked about this ratio, he said: "Hindu women come readily to us because after conversion we facilitate their marriages to Muslims."

Jai Prakash Moorani, editor of the Sindhi daily, Ibrat, told Al Jazeera that forced conversions are indeed taking place amid Pakistan's permissive legal system.

"When Hindu girls are kidnapped, forcibly converted and married to Muslims, the police, government and courts all turn a blind eye," Moorani said, noting this encourages more abductions and forced conversions.

Civil-rights activists maintain that because there has never been a court ruling on forced conversions in support of the aggrieved Hindu families, there is no precedent to deter the crime.

"Pakistan was built in the name of Islam," Sanaullah Abbasi, the Deputy Inspector General of Police of Hyderabad, told Al Jazeera.

"This makes it easy to exploit religious minorities in our country," he conceded.

For the Hindu community, their problems are at the bottom of the priority list. They may try to break the status quo, but no conscious effort from the government is being made to resolve the issue of forcible conversions amongst Pakistan's small minority.
 
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Utter BS. I have lived and worked in interior Sind. Some colonies in the towns were of Hindu dominance. I saw the only cases of conversion were both falling in love and for the wedlock conversion was required. I can paste link of hundreds of articles where Muslims in India were forced to convert not denying one in hundred cases could be forced conversion in Pakistan.

Hah...just a mere article to provide hindu fanatics with an opportunity to troll.
 
yes, we do care. we did vote against israel. and you don't have any moral ground to questioned us, when ZIa was involved in killing of hundreds of Palestinians. forget Black september ?



No you didnt!!!!

Hindu's and Indians supported the slaughter in Gaza, same goes for Gujraat, same goes for kashmir

Why should we listen to your whining
 
BS story. We have a lot of non-Muslims living around us and no one has any complaint. I am sure that the whole Pakistani non-Muslims have the same enjoyment of life as in our area.
 
We are so evil :devil:
hahahahahhahahaha i hope many Indians keyboard warriors are on their way with their BS as usual :pop:
 
Utter BS. I have lived and worked in interior Sind. Some colonies in the towns were of Hindu dominance. I saw the only cases of conversion were both falling in love and for the wedlock conversion was required. I can paste link of hundreds of articles where Muslims in India were forced to convert not denying one in hundred cases could be forced conversion in Pakistan.

Hah...just a mere article to provide hindu fanatics with an opportunity to troll.

So just becuz your Neighbor is doing anything wrong gives you the right to do the same thing
 
I strongly condemn this action by Mullahs. Pakistan is very dangerous place for minorities. U.N should take serious action .
 
The Hindus of Pakistan need to come to India. GoI must facilitate them.

Once the Hindus move out, the sunnis will turn a more focused eye on the shias and ahmadis.
 
The Hindus of Pakistan need to come to India. GoI must facilitate them.

Once the Hindus move out, the sunnis will turn a more focused eye on the shias and ahmadis.

Further reaffirming that the "Elite" title is essentially incorrect since it is based on number of posts and not quality of posts.
 
Will be corrected in the next upgrade.
I could not more more thankful for that than ANYTHING else on this forum. It will literally change how Def.pk is viewed for its members and posts once we reward only quality and get past the limitations of our forum platform.
 
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