KARACHI: Two Hindu women have been abducted from their houses in Pakistan’s southwestern Sindh province in recent days, area officials said and demanded safeguards to prevent “frequent abductions” and “forced conversions”. A leader of the Hindu community in Hyderabad, Shiva Kachi, said,” We are receiving information about such instances almost every week from various parts of the state, and no one seems to attention.” There is currently a lot of worry in the Hindu area.
Kachi is the head of the Pakistan Darewar Ittehad, a group that fights for the treatment of Hindu women who were abducted, allegedly forcibly converted to Islam, and frequently married to Muslim guys who are much older.
According to him, there have recently been two situations involving two women being kidnapped from their homes in Khairpur and Mirpurkhas, he said.
In the first instance, a 16-year-old woman was kidnapped from her residence in Khairpur while a school 7th pupil was abducted from Digri village near Mirpurkhas.
Kachi claimed in the first instance that a Muslim children claimed that she had eloped with him and wed him after becoming a Muslim.
He claimed that safeguards needed to be put in place by the Pakistani government and municipal authorities to protect the Hindu area.
Ramesh Kumar, a social advocate from Hyderabad, claims that even the police refuse to record FIRs on behalf of the affected people, who are primarily uneducated and weak, once the ladies are abducted.
” There is a connection between some monks, officers and significant Muslims and the Hindu society suffers”, he claimed.
Not the only majority who asserts they are subject to injustice and discrimination are Hindus. On Tuesday, an Ahmadi family ( Ahmadiyyas are declared non-Muslims in Pakistan ) saw their under-construction house vandalised in Karachi’s Shah Faisal colony.
” Anything was fine. We’ve been building the home for a while, but yesterday a rumor emerged that Ahmadis were building a temple, and a mob stormed the under-construction building, according to Shahid Ahmed.
In many instances, the 500, 000-strong Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan do n’t reveal themselves openly for fear of repercussions.
Kumar also made reference to the incident that led to the authorities in Hyderabad City’s Rama Par, a Hindu temple, and earlier in the day, allegedly opened fire on the building while the officers were putting a stop to arresting those responsible for entering and setting fire during a religious ceremony.
On Monday, a large number of Hindus in Hyderabad demanded that the accused of the reported abuse on the church in which five people were hurt.
” Officers have filed complaints against 11 folks but made only two detention”, he said.
When a dispute broke out between two distinct Hindu communities during a religious service, strangers came in and opened fire on the church while the service was still ongoing.
