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UN experts expressed concern that forced marriages and religious conversions of girls in Pakistan from religious minorities which have been coerced are validated by the courts, often invoking religious law to justify keeping victims with their abductors rather than allowing them to return them to their parents.
A bill designed to prevent child marriages in Pakistan’s most populated province has raised hope for protection of Christian girls and others from Muslims abducting and forcibly marrying and converting them, sources said.
A Christian father in Pakistan is looking for justice after his teenage daughter was recently kidnapped and forced into marriage.
[O]n March 25, the Lahore High Court in Pakistan awarded custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to her Muslim kidnapper. Charges were filed, "but instead of arresting the two suspects, police tipped them off .... Since that time, they have been
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.