Three daughters of Hindu businessman forced to marry their abductors and converted to Islam
On July 22, 2023, the head of Pakistan’s Darawar Ittehad, named Shiva Kachhi said that three daughters of a Hindu businessman named Leela Ram were first abducted and then subsequently converted to Islam and then married off to Muslim men. The incident took place in Dharki, an area that comes under the Sindh province of Pakistan.
According to Shiva Kachhi,“The conversion was performed by one man named Pir
Javed Ahmed Quadri, and later they were married to Muslim men.” Despite appeals
and pleas from his organisation’s platform, the problem of forceful conversions of
Hindu girls is still underway and the local authorities such as the police are not
serious in apprehending the culprits.
Kachhi further said that the three daughters of Leela Ram were actually married to
the same men who abducted the trio. The intensity of the attacks on the minority
communities (Hindus) increased manifold after the Seema Haider incident.
A woman named Seema Haider who is from Pakistan and the mother of four
children sneaked into India to live with an Indian named Sachin Meena, whom she
befriended through an online game platform. She was ostracised by her family
and community members for daring to defy the societal norms of a conservative
Muslim country.
Kachhi claimed that there have been daily threats from the dacoits in the riverine
areas to retaliate against the Hindus because of this incident. Last week a gang of
dacoits attacked a Hindu temple with rocket launchers along with the adjoining
houses belonging to Hindus in the Kashmore area of the Sindh province.
“After the temple of the Bhagris was attacked by the dacoits in Kashmore, the
authorities have now sent Hindu Policemen for the security of the temples and
worship places in Mirpurkhas, Kashmore, Tharparkar, Ghotki, Sukkur, Umerkot and
Sanghar,” Kachhi alleged. The Hindu policemen had also been sent to riverine
areas to hunt the dacoits.
In January 2023, a married Hindu girl was abducted from the town of Umerkot in
Sindh. As the abductors threatened and tried to forcibly convert to Islam. When she
refused, they raped her. In June 2022, a girl named Kareena Kumari told the court
that she was abducted and forcefully converted to Islam.
In March 2022, three Hindu girls- Satran Oad, Kaveeta Bheel, and Anita Bheel were
abducted from their homes, forcibly converted and then married to Muslim men in
a period of just eight days. The same year in March, a girl named Pooja Kumari was
shot dead outside her home in Sukkur.
Apparently, a Pakistani man wanted to marry her, but when she refused to do so,
the man and two accomplices shot the girl a few days later. Not only young teenage girls but older Hindu women fell prey to abduction and forceful conversions. Gori Kohli, a mother of four children, was abducted from Khipro in Sindh, and later, it transpired that she had converted to Islam and married to Aijaz Marri, the man accused of kidnapping her.
