Disturbing news has again emerged from Pakistan wherein girls from the minority Christian community are increasingly becoming targets of human trafficking to China.
Chinese workers in Pakistan who are there due to the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) are now gunning for a bride through any means since there is a massive shortage of women in China due to its one-child policy.
As per reports, Chinese men come to Pakistan with documents issued by non-existing companies and but the real motive is to buy a bride.
There is also a Brookings Institution report titled ‘Bride Trafficking along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’. In that report, brides are sold for as low as USD 3,500 to USD 5,000. However, for the families of these girls who are impoverished, this is a significant fortune.
Since there are restrictions due to the Sharia law on marriages in Pakistan, Christian girls are an easy target because they do not come under the ambient of Sharia law.
Christian activists reported that in the city of Gujranwala, Punjab, between 750 and 1,000 Christian girls were trafficked to Chinese men and in several instances, the girls have reported abuse, maltreatment, domestic violence and forced pregnancies.
There are also reports of sham marriages as some Chinese men do not even look for real wives, but for exotic women who are forced to work as prostitutes in China.
There is also another horrifying report via unconfirmed accounts that claim that Pakistani women are taken to China and killed to use their bodies for organ harvesting which the Chinese authorities “vehemently deny”.
It is also reported that human traffickers are complicit with the corrupt Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officers who facilitate the process. In China, there is a serious shortage of brides due to the draconian one-child policy that led to many people aborting fetuses if it is girls resulting in a drop in the sex ratio.
Pakistan is now considered a Chinese vessel state and politicians are more worried about maintaining a relationship with China than worry about Pakistani women being trafficked as brides.
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