The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday, while hearing a petition filed by two Ghotki sisters who were allegedly forcibly converted from Hinduism and married to Muslim men, constituted a five-member commission to probe whether the girls’ conversion was actually forced and to determine whether or not they were underage at the time of their […]
Hindu girls in Pakistan
Forced conversion and religious zealots
I was appalled upon learning that yet another family fell a victim of a religious zealot-another forceful conversion had taken place in Pakistan. To be born in a country which was created on a rationale that offered equality for all minorities, I was nothing but flabbergasted over this surreal yet heinous act of a conversion […]