Converted Hindu Girl, United with family in Pakistan
The Hindu girl Aneela with her Father
Pakistani Hindu community is rejoicing as a Hindu girl from a poor family of Sindh who was forcibly converted to Islam has been united with her family.
The Hindu girl Aneela’s case was brought to limelight by advocate Ramesh Gupta whose efforts yielded results.
A while back Hindu girl Aneela was abducted from Kali Mandir of Hyderabad, Sindh and threatened to convert to Islam or face consequences.
On July 23rd, 2016, she appeared before the court of Additional Sessions Judge No.8 Hyderabad and told him that she was kidnapped and forcibly converted and that she would like to go back to her parents.
Read: PERSECUTION OF PAKISTANI HINDUS
The statement helped the judge to deliver the decision in her favor and she was freed to join her family.
But her abductor ran away from the court and the court also did not announce any punishment in abstentia which is worrisome.
Aneela with her Family
Hindu girl Aneela was a captive at the Brohi tribal site area in Pakistan. What is also worrisome is the role of the DSP site Hyderabad, near Fatah Chowk, who played a suspicious role in this matter and refused to cooperate with the Hindu girl Aneela’s family. However, she won the case from court but her family fear that the abductor would come again..
Many Hindu and Christian girls are abducted in Pakistan every month for forceful conversions. Many young boys have also fallen prey to this inhuman practice. A leader of the Karachi Hindu community, Amarnath Motumal, states that at least 20 to 25 girls are abducted and converted to Islam against their will every single month.[71][72][73] In January 2014,
What is worrisome is that most of these cases are being reported from Sindh, which is ruled by late Benazir Bhutto’s party, PPP, which claims to be a secular party in entire Pakistan. But many PPP workers have also been found involved in forced conversion cases. Such fine example is Rinkle Kumari, the 19 years old Sindhi Hindu girl who was kidnapped and allegedly forcibly converted to Islam before corrosively marrying her to a Muslim Naveed Shah. The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians’ leader, Pir Abdul Haq aka Mian Mitho was involved. Mian Mitho, who is one of the Pirs of Dargah Bharchoondi Sharif and an influential figure of the area, is known to welcome Hindu boys and girls who wish to embrace Islam. He also reportedly provides them protection from their families and others in case they feel unsafe. Rinkle Kumari – the new Marvi of Sindh
Read on BBC: Pakistan Hindu woman Rinkle Kumari ‘forced to marry’
Aneela joins the lucky trio of Hindu girls like the Mavi Kolhi, Meena Meghwar, Parwati and Ganga Bagri who were able to escape from the clutches of their abductors and had the courts ruling in the favour of their freedom.
Apart from Hindus, the Kalash, country’s smallest religious minority, celebrate their gods through music and dance also fears forced conversion to Islam.
Read:
- Clash in Chitral over Kalash girl’s ‘forced’ conversion to Islam
- Stories of forced conversion to Islam in Pakistan
- Hindus from Pakistan
