Pakistan Hindu Council appeals for suo motu notice of augmenting forced conversions
MNA Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani pronounced a arise of such horrific incidents showed that a supervision had unsuccessful to yield confidence to non-Muslims. DESIGN: Jahanzaib Haque/File
The Pakistan Hindu Council has appealed to a Supreme Court to take suo motu notice of a arise in kidnappings, forced conversions and forced marriages of underage Hindu girls to Muslim group in Sindh.
An open of a legislature was hold on Sunday to plead a emanate after media reports emerged progressing this week of a box of 16-year-old Ravita Meghwadh from Tharparkar whose family alleges she was abducted, forcibly converted and married off to a Muslim male “twice her age” in Umerkot.
Pakistan Hindu Council patron-in-chief and MNA Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani attended a open along with Hotchand Kirmani, Paman Lal Rathi, Dr Deepak Kumar and Raja Asar Mal, according to a press recover released on Sunday.
“The conditions in a area from where Ravita was kidnapped is still really moving and a victim’s family is reportedly [being] forced to leave home,” a matter said.
Hindu underage lady ‘forcibly converted and married off’ in Tharparkar
MNA Vankwani demanded that Ravita be rescued, observant such incidents could be described as amicable crimes in any courteous multitude though in Sindh, hate-mongering elements were presenting it [abduction and forced conversion] as a good help underneath a clothe of religion.
He pronounced a legislature had never opposite acclimatisation to Islam if it is finished designedly by a person.
“But a conditions in Sindh is wholly opposite where a concentration is usually to modify kidnapped Hindu girls with a solitary purpose of marrying them though their consent,” he added.
The parliamentarian criticised a Sindh supervision for not flitting a forced acclimatisation check that would have offering some remit to eremite minorities. The check strictly patrician Criminal Law (Protection of Minorities) Bill was upheld unanimously by a Sindh Assembly final year, though a administrator refused to pointer it into law and sent it behind to a open seeking them to “reconsider it”.
Speaking of another forced acclimatisation incident, Vankwani pronounced 15-year-old Ganga was kidnapped by a male named Qasim Hajam and forced to modify and marry during gunpoint.
He pronounced a arise of such horrific incidents showed that a supervision had unsuccessful to yield confidence to non-Muslims and had left a disastrous impact on a socio-psychological condition of minorities.
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“Five thousand Pakistani Hindus are being forced to quit each year,” pronounced Vankwani. “Remaining a bad community, they have no other choice though to keep quiet.”
The meeting’s participants voiced grief that it had been some-more than 15 days given Ravita was allegedly kidnapped though a military had still not arrested a perpetrators since they were successful people.
They pronounced a abductors generally tend to benefaction a lady in justice after a integrate of weeks with a acclimatisation certificate from any madrasa to clear their crime and that presented authorised cover for a military to do nothing.
When these girls are presented in court, they miss even a simple bargain of their newly-adopted sacrament and are not even authorised to acquire an temperament label since they are so young, a participants noted.
They urged Vankwani to play his purpose as a politician and open figure to engage all segments of a multitude to criticism opposite forced conversions and marriages.
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