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A Christian father in Pakistan who took his 15-year-old daughter out of school to protect her from harassment by a Muslim is now trying to free her from kidnapping and forcible marriage/conversion by the same man, he said.

A high court in Pakistan last week ordered a provincial government to remove gender-based age distinction in its child marriage law, a move aimed at deterring forced conversions and forced marriages of girls, sources said.

A 28-year-old woman in Karnataka was allegedly raped before being coerced into converting to Islam. The victim alleged in her complaint that the accused raped her in front of his wife.

UN experts urged Pakistan to bring perpetrators to justice, enforce existing legal protections against forced marriage, abduction and trafficking of minority girls

Her family immediately went to police, who told them not to go public, and that they would help return Irene.... In early February, however, the family finally did go public -- and hinted that the authorities were complicit in the abduction and know

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"[T]he cause of her death remains uncertain," says the report by the British Asian Christian Association. This tragedy is not new to Pakistan.... many Christian girls and boys have been abducted in a similar manner and later found raped and murdered. —

An Islamist cleric presided over the forced conversion of two Christians in Sialkot District, Pakistan after they were tortured into reciting the Islamic conversion creed, sources said.

Two Christian brothers from Pakistan were forcibly converted to Islam after being abducted and brutally tortured by Muslim men, according to the Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement.