Forced conversion: a state’s failure
KARACHI: Forced conversions of Hindu girls in Sindh are appalling. The latest box comes from Thar, that is a remote district in Sindh.
A 16-year-old Hindu lady was allegedly kidnapped, forcibly converted and afterwards married to one of her abductors. Although a teenager had after given a matter observant that she eloped and consented to acclimatisation and marriage, a occurrence has caused annoy and disappointment among a Hindu community.
According to a former vice-chairperson of a Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 20 or some-more Hindu girls are abducted and converted each month. Despite this, no effective measures have been taken by a provincial supervision to stop this even yet over 7 per cent of Sindh’s race comprises Hindus. Last year, a Sindh Assembly upheld a check opposite forced eremite conversions, The Criminal Law (Protection of Minorities) Act 30, though usually to be returned dual months after by former administrator Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, allegedly due to vigour from influential, regressive and nonconformist Muslims.
Hindu underage lady ‘forcibly converted and married off’ in Tharparkar
These pressures usually go on to uncover a hapless state a Hindu village is done to live in. Perhaps, even for a minute, we trust a underage Hindu lady converted and married of her will, that is indeed her right, because hasn’t a military arrested a husband for marrying a minor. The Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act 2013 and Hindu Marriage Bill 2017, both demarcate child marriages with despotic penalties imposed on perpetrators.
The Sindh government’s overpower on this matter speaks volumes of their inability to levy actions of bills they themselves have passed. Instead of spending their time beautifying Karachi, a supervision should promote the marginalised communities.
Javeria Akmal
Published in The Express Tribune, Jun 20th, 2017.
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