Posted on 04/17/2019 10:42:33 PM PDT by Cronos
The largest number of Hindus in Pakistan live in the southern province of Sindh and most of them have no access to education, health or basic amenities. Their women and children mostly work in the agricultural fields of their landlords all day where everyone can see them.
The struggle to earn a livelihood for their families makes many of these Hindu girls vulnerable to becoming victims of sexual harassment by Muslim men, says Dr Ramesh Vankwani, a Pakistan National Assembly member who also heads the Pakistani Hindu Council
It starts with the abduction of these Hindu girls by Muslim men who are often married. They keep the girls in their custody, rape them and then force them to convert to Islam before marrying them. “There is not even one case in which anyone has willingly converted. These men, who are often already married, kidnap the girls, keep them in their custody, rape them, and through threats and intimidation make the girls say they converted willingly,” according to Dr Vankwani, patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Hindu Council.
Forced conversions and underage marriages of girls are common in Tharparkar and Umerkot districts of Sindh where almost 50% of the population is Hindu. Such incidents, however, are rarely reported in the media.
According to locals, one of the main causes of abductions of underage Hindu girls is the support and backing of the alleged kidnappers by prominent and influential religious personalities. They help the abductors by providing them shelter before converting the Hindu girls to Islam and marrying them off to their abductors.
One of the main culprits believed to have converted hundreds of Hindu girls is Mian Abdul Haq, alias Mian Mithu, a politician and Muslim cleric from an influential family in Sindh. Several years ago, the family of an abducted Hindu girl, Rinkle Kumari, had filed a petition against him accusing him of being the person who had facilitated and supported the abduction of their daughter.
Pakistan’s downtrodden Hindu community alleges that Mithu provides shelter and protection to the kidnappers of their girls and then forces them to accept Islam and marry their abductors.
Mithu, however, rejects these allegations, stating that the Hindu girls he had converted to Islam were not minors. “The Hindu girls who visit us are mature and come of their own free will. The first thing that we do is to call their parents to speak to them. If the girls are not willing to return with their parents, as a Muslim it is my duty to provide them protection,” the cleric had earlier said.
Local Hindus, however, contradict his claim. Requesting anonymity, they said no one can challenge his authority. “Mithu is a very influential person and no Hindu family can dare challenge his authority. There is not a single case when a Hindu girl was taken by her kidnapper to his place and she was not converted to Islam,” said a Hindu peasant in the umerkot district.According to a 2018 report by the University of Birmingham, an estimated 1,000 women and girls from religious minorities are abducted, forcibly converted and then married to their abductors every year in Pakistan. Lawyer Amarnath Motumal of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan told the media that 20 or more Hindu girls are abducted every month and forcibly converted.
In 2013, the Sindh government had set up a three-member committee to consider legislation to stop forced conversions and forced marriages.
In November 2016, the bill was passed unanimously by the Sindh Provincial Assembly but it failed to become law as the then governor, Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui, had returned the bill in January 2017. The bill was then effectively blocked by mobilisation from various quarters.
The world would be a better place if Pakistan were nuked off the map.
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In India the Muslim population at independence in 1947 (Pakistan was carved out of India as a "home for the indian continent's Muslims") was 8%, now it is 14%
Amen.
India better watch its muslim population.
They seem to know how to infest a country.
Like the cockroaches they are.
THAT was his big mistake. imagine if we didn't have Gulf War II and instead had eliminated the Paki nukes?
“India better watch its muslim population.
The Indian people are well aware of the threat. One of the largest genocides in history happened in India at the hands of muslims. Not many people here know about it. But the Indians do.
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The world would be a better place if every single saracen in the world was gotten rid of. We can’t have another crusade soon enough.
“imagine if we didn’t have Gulf War II and instead had eliminated the Paki nukes?”
Bush would have had Bin Ladens head before the end of his term if it weren’t for those duplicitous bastards. They hid him for over a decade and lied to us.
We should nuke them tomorrow on general principle.
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Pakistan and India are made for each other. I'd suggest letting them nuke each other into the stone ages, but they are already there.
Bush Jr. led us down a bad path and should never be forgiven for it. Going to war in Iraq was wrong. Saudis, Pakistan, and Afghanistan should have been the focus. And letting Pakistan and India get nukes should have put both in same spot as North Korea. That we didn’t has and will hurt us.
Hindus and muslims have been fighting for a coon’s age.
Why can’t India offer asylum to its displaced Hindu citizens? Seems to me that India is badly dropping the humanitarian ball to these people. They are Hindu, they belong in India. Not in a muzzie country where they are easy prey. Why isn’t India offering them, besides asylum, education and medical care to launch them out of poverty?
True love /s
Dats racist!
In order to do that Dubya would have had to abandon his brainless “Religion of Peace” enthusiasm.
Yeah but that FReeper cronos posted numbers saying since 1950 the muslim population has grown from 6 percent to 14 percent.
that’s getting up there!!
Sorry. EIGHT percent to 14 percent.
I dont even like our 1 percent!!
On that I agree — and that would save the world
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That would take out the guy who calls from the “Windows Department.”
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