Her mother pleaded for her return in a video widely viewed on the internet: “For the sake of God, the Quran, whatever you believe, please return my daughter, she was forcibly taken from our home.”īut a Hindu activist, who didn’t want to be identified for fear of repercussions from powerful landlords, said she received a letter that the family was forced to write.
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In the feudal Kashmore region of southern Sindh province, 13-year-old Sonia Kumari was kidnapped, and a day later police told her parents she had converted from Hinduism to Islam. Those who report forced conversions, for example, can be targeted with charges of blasphemy. Minorities make up just 3.6 percent of Pakistan’s 220 million people and often are the target of discrimination. The goal is to secure virginal brides rather than to seek new converts to Islam. One activist, Jibran Nasir, called the network a “mafia” that preys on non-Muslim girls because they are the most vulnerable and the easiest targets “for older men with pedophilia urges.” Once converted, the girls are quickly married off, often to older men or to their abductors, according to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.įorced conversions thrive unchecked on a money-making web that involves Islamic clerics who solemnize the marriages, magistrates who legalize the unions and corrupt local police who aid the culprits by refusing to investigate or sabotaging investigations, say child protection activists.
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Sometimes they are taken by powerful landlords as payment for outstanding debts by their farmhand parents, and police often look the other way. The girls generally are kidnapped by complicit acquaintances and relatives or men looking for brides. While most of the converted girls are impoverished Hindus from southern Sindh province, two new cases involving Christians, including Neha’s, have roiled the country in recent months. Commission on International Religious Freedom that underage girls in the minority Hindu, Christian, and Sikh communities were “kidnapped for forced conversion to Islam… forcibly married and subjected to rape.” The declaration was based in part on an appraisal by the U.S. State Department this month declared Pakistan “a country of particular concern” for violations of religious freedoms - a designation the Pakistani government rejects. Human rights activists say the practice has accelerated during lockdowns against the coronavirus, when girls are out of school and more visible, bride traffickers are more active on the Internet and families are more in debt. Neha is one of nearly 1,000 girls from religious minorities who are forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan each year, largely to pave the way for marriages that are under the legal age and non-consensual.
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“He brought the gun to shoot me,” said Neha, whose last name The Associated Press is not using for her safety. Neha’s husband is in jail now facing charges of rape for the underage marriage, but she is in hiding, afraid after security guards confiscated a pistol from his brother in court. She all but disappears as she wraps a blue scarf tightly around her face and head. She tells her story in a voice so low it occasionally fades away. But she lost the chance to sing them last year when, at the age of 14, she was forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam and married to a 45-year-old man with children twice her age. Neha loved the hymns that filled her church with music.