Hindu Forum Canada puts up billboards in Toronto thanking PM Modi for vaccines Forced conversion is one of the ugliest outcomes of religious fundamentalism. Unfortunately, the number of checks and measures is not nearly enough to dent both social evils. As per one of the recent incidents coming to light, Farah, a 12-year-old Christian girl says she was taken from her home in Faisalabad, shackled, forced to convert to Islam and was then made to marry her kidnapper. National-level shooter Tara Shahdeo was tortured by his husband who her forced her to convert to Islam. (Representational Image)Reuters File Hers is one of the many similar cases of forced conversions that minor girls have to go through. As per Sharia Law, marriages under the age of 16 are acceptable if both of those marrying are Muslims. At the time of the last census, there were about two million Christians in Pakistan, which is just over 1 percent of the population. As per reports, in 2017 Pakistani authorities excluded Sikhs from their census. It has also been reported that the Sikh population is close to extinction in Pakistan, from 40,000 Sikhs, the number has now come down to 8000.