In yet another incident of abduction and forced conversion to Islam, a 22-year-old Hindu girl named Arti Bai was kidnapped on Saturday (3 April) in Larkana in the Sindh province of Pakistan and married off to a Muslim man.
Karachi based journalist Veengas posted a video on Twitter that showed the Hindu community of Sindh protesting and demanding justice in the case of the abduction of Arti Bai. It is also reported that the local court did not allow Arti’s parents to meet their daughter.
Just in: Hindu girl Aarti who was abducted from Larkana, got converted to Islam, and married off to man.
— Veengas (@VeengasJ) April 9, 2021
Local court kept girl’s parents from meeting with girl. In video seen Hindu community held protest and asked for justice. “Khapay Phapay Justice Khapay”
Video:local jour pic.twitter.com/SArRIMM54r
According to a report by ANI, Arti Bai’s father Dr. Namo Mal said that his daughter went missing after she left home for the beauty parlour where used to work.
Such instances of Hindu girls being kidnapped in Pakistan are routine, along with the attacks on Hindu temples. As per data available, only 30 Hindu temples in Pakistan are functional today, out of the 1,300 pre-Partition era temples that existed in the region.
In December 2020, Samuel Brownback, a top US diplomat highlighted the severity of the human rights violations and the lack of religious freedom in Pakistan. Brownback said that Pakistan is trafficking Hindu and Christian women to China as “concubines” and “forced brides”.
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