Tag: forced conversions
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Pakistani film ‘Hum-Saya’ receives Best Short Documentary award at Venice Film Festival
Director Dawood Murad’s venture ‘Hum-Saya’, produced by the Centre For Social Justice, has received the prestigious award for ‘Best Short Documentary on Human Rights’ at the Venice Intercultural Festival 2023. The film focuses on the story of two girls who are abducted, forcibly converted and then married off, while also exploring the turmoil their families…
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18-year-old Hindu girl shot dead for resisting kidnapping and forced conversion
Trigger Warning: Violence/Senstive Content Pooja Kumari, an 18-year-old Hindu girl was murdered in Rohri, Sindh. As per media reports, she was shot during a failed abduction attempt. As per reports, the name of the deceased soul is Pooja Kumari Oad. Three men reportedly broke into Pooja’s house to kidnap and forcibly convert her. She was shot…
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Forced conversions are against the spirit of the constitution
On Wednesday, a parliamentary committee rejected the anti-forced conversion bill after the Ministry of Religious Affairs opposed the proposed law. According to Dawn, Religious Affairs Minister Noor-ul-Haq Qadri said the “environment is unfavourable” for formulating a law against forced conversions and warned that forming a law on forced conversions would “create further problems for minorities” as…
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Medical board to ascertain age of teenage Christian bride
The Sindh High Court has ordered the formation of a medical board to determine the age of Arzoo Raja — a teenage Christian girl who was kidnapped, forced to marry a 44-year-old man in Karachi after conversion to Islam. The matter was brought to the court attention after her parents approached the high court, seeking…
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Forced conversions
According to her parents, a 13-year old Christian girl Arzoo Raja was abducted by a man in his 40s, forcefully converted to Islam and then married to him. Then a local court dismissed the plea moved by her family to send her to a shelter home so that she was released from the custody of…
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Teenage Christian bride to stay with ‘kidnapper’, rules court
In spite of the parents’ plea seeking the return of their underage girl, the Sindh High Court handed the custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl child to a Muslim who allegedly coerced the teenager into marriage after her abduction and forced conversion. Newsday Pakistan, an outlet focused on minority rights, reported the court as saying…