Suspected kidnapping: Teen Hindu converts, marries
A teenage Hindu girl, MK, has converted to Islam and married a man identified as Ghulam Murtaza Channo, her parents informed Jacobabad SSP Muhammad Younis Chandio late Thursday evening.
The family had thought that she had been kidnapped five days ago. SSP Chandio met her father, Riwatt Mal alias Beebo, and uncle Sanjay Singh, and Hindu Panchayat President Babo Mahesh Lakhani at Janta Hall on Thursday. He informed them that the couple appeared in the Sindh High Court in Sukkur in the morning and demanded protection.
Their daughter has taken the new name of Mehwish. The district police have been directed to provide them protection. “M phoned us today and said that she had married but we heard the voices of two men and a woman and doubt that she was being allowed to speak freely,” Beebo and Singh told daily Sindh Express. “We’ll migrate to India, if M is not recovered. We can’t live with this situation now.”
Published in The Express Tribune, August 10th, 2012.
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Girl is underage. A civil society international code demands that she be returned to her parents.
@Muhajir: Who gave this idea that Indian Muslims will leave our country, I am a Bihari Muslim and India IS and WILL remain my country and we do not want to migrate to pakistan, stop leaving in this dream.
Shame on all the Paki's living in the Paki-Isthan of Jahil Mullahs.
@Injun: Agreed no Indian Muslim will agree to migrate to Wahabi/Deobandi Talibinised Pakistan the real Terror which is spreading like Cancer in the Quaid's Liberal Muslim Pakistan
@Muhajir: u ur self being a refugee how u are inviting indians to migrate to pakistan
Its not at all civilsed state . Its state of ciminals n ll die fightin each other one day n a day ll cum der ll be no pak on world map
can someone please justify how can this underage girl get married when the law doesnt permit immature marriages. this proves how easily and openly people are fiddeling with the law and brings about the reason for all the law and order imbalance.
this is truely a serious matter but not a new thing you get among these minorities and you will find out all the obnoxious reason behind such scenarios, one of the basic reason for such forged conversations is the safety of the families as its very easy here for someone to bulley the minorities.
minorities can never have equal rights even if the laws are made coz the law doesnt need to change what needs to change the most is the societal mindsets for us pakistani's which is being the basic reason for our reputation around the globe.
starting using your heads people before they get rusted.
Acoording to reports, the girl is 15! I presume, she is considered a minor and hence she can't vote, can't get a driver's license, can't sign a legal contract, cannot stand for an election / public office, cannot work as an adult.
But yet, she can "decide" to change her religion and marry, and the courts / public believes that this is done of her "own free will"? Have you all no shame left? In any civilized country, the man would be declared a paedohile and put behind bars!
Indian Muslims are Welcome to migrate to Sindh-Pakistan in large numbers. Welcome to Sindh, Welcome to Pakistan, My South Asian Muslim brothers.
Indian Muslims aare smart.they know here not to migrate.they also know that Pakistan is no country for them and they will not have the freedom they have in India.try enticing them and see what success ou will have!!!
Aah! Another one of those cases where romance seems to have suddenly blossomed between a Hindu teen girl and most probably a Muslim middle aged guy, which gets the support of the Pakistani public! Pakistan is truly a blessed land for such romantics.
I wonder if the Pakistani public will show such an outpouring of support if a teen Muslim girl elopes with and marries a middle-aged Hindu/Christian/Sikh guy ?
Muslims in Pakistan are celebrating Ramzan in a unique way. They start off with two boys selling their mother for PKR 30,000 (approx. $ 300). It is higher than the $1 said by US Senator some 15 years ago but still a bargain compared to the price of a lamb in Pakistan. May be price went up due to inflation. Then they parade mother and daughter naked and take video clips. Then they kidnap, rape and convert 16 year old minor Hindu girls. Other Muslims read Koran during Ramzan. In other countries Muslims do not marry during Ramzan. But Pakistani Muslims rape and rejoice.
@Muhajir Hope they are treating you well there. First ask your MQM leader to come to Pakistan and then you can send as many hindus away and replace them with muslims willing to migrate from anywhere in the world.
@Wajahat: I think you have to change your thinking. This is a serious situation.
Let me guess, the bridegroom is twice as old as the bride.
@Kaalchakra
Pakistan must keep some Hindus for the safety for Muslim brothers and sisters in India, and the Great Quaid wanted.
Well, since the numbers of Muslims in India is close to 180 million, the balance of terror does not work.
Or, are you conceding that each Hindu is more valuable than 1000s of the other kind?
Will you guys ever grow out of Hostages and Murder for Murder mindset?
This is nothing but propaganda from secular lobby.By the grace of Allah the hindu girls are seeing the truth of islam and the falsehood of idol worship and therefore reverting in droves.Insha Allah the day is not far when all the hindus of Pakistan will revert to Islam.
Similar situation like Nazi Germany.
To be honest, Pakistani muslims are becoming the most hated group in the world - the reasons are above.
It has become norm in Pakistan to chase, kidnapped and converts Hindu girls.
In a society where no Hindu guy can dare to marry a Muslim girl without converting, authorities and general public still think that a teenager girl has converted to Islam by her own will.
Does it require more than commonsense that a teenager can hardly distinguish between the spiritual and intellectual dimensions of two religions. But he/she knows which relgion will offer safety, security in life ahead.
And here conversion is also like a one way street. A Muslim girl in Pakistan can simply not leave Islam and marry a Hindu guy because society in large still thinks that Islamic honor lies in Muslim woman’s chastity. So once a Hindu girl is forcibly converted to Islam she become Muslim and now that Islamic honor automatically came to associate with her. Now if she leaves Islam or goes back to her birth religion it is obvious what will follow.
A Muslim girl marrying a Hindu would be seen as a great dishonor to Islam hence a brutal violence will unleash against the couple and guy’s non Islamic family.
General Muslims do not want to acknowledge the problem but fact remains that Islamic state and their societies are not exclusive because they have incredible records of intolerance in past but they still openly exhibit.
@Muhajir: As salamu alaikum, we don't need to go to pakistan.
@Muhajir: What a silly comment. Teachings of Islam say no compulsion in religion and you instead of condemning the forced coversion favoring it and asking the Hindus to leave Pakistan. Such a mind set has already damaged the reputation of this country and if such thinking continues then Pakistan has no chance to be called having a honourable civil society.
Denounce kidnapping. Check the vices of landed “aristocrats” and other powerful persons.
Pakistan is exploding from within. It is like the days of Idi Amin in Uganda. We all know what happened to Uganda after the exodus of Hindus from Uganda.
The Great Quaid knew about Hindus that they can never live with Muslims. Let these Hindus go but Pakistan must keep some Hindus for the safety for Muslim brothers and sisters in India, and the Great Quaid wanted.
Sindhi Muslim Feudals are responsible for kidnapping and converting Sindhi Hindu girls. If because of that, Sindh ke Hindu ko Bharat Jaana hai, toh jaane do. Hume isse koi shikwa nahin. We can bring the Stranded Biharis from Bangladesh and Rohingaya refugees from Bangladesh to Karachi and Sukkur and Hyderabad to take the place of Sindhi Hindu. We will welcome our Bihari and Rohingaya brothers to Pakistan with open arms. Let those who love Pakistan, be free to come to Pakistan and live in Pakistan. Indian Muslims are Welcome to migrate to Sindh-Pakistan in large numbers. Welcome to Sindh, Welcome to pakistan, My South Asian Muslim brothers.