The demonstrations were accompanied by a side event at the International Centre Conference on Sindh and a Sindhi Human Rights Exhibition. Protesters raised concerns over a wide range of issues, including enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, land grabbing, forced conversions of Si
In her letter to West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, MP Mahato claimed that the TMC has institutionalized a strategy, known as the "Didir Begum Model," to facilitate the targeted engagement and marriage of Hindu girls, especially from Scheduled Castes and backward communities, to Muslim men
Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan has condemned the tragic deaths of two Hindu girls, aged 15 and 17, in Pakistan's Islamkot area. The girls, identified as Hema and Venti, were found hanging from a tree.
"You see in Sindh, bandits are forcefully converting our Hindu girls to Islam. Bandits in mud forts areas kidnap people but Bandits in settled areas are forcing girls to convert their religion. However, Pakistan gives us the right that no one should force anyone else to convert," the lead
Abro highlighted the alarming trend of Sindhi Hindu girls being forcibly converted and married off to Muslim men, often under the influence of extremist figures in the country. He criticized the judiciary for siding with individuals accused of such actions and called for justice for victi
"Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence," the experts said in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday.
The European Pakistani Christian Action Committee held a protest outside the European Parliament, raising issues including the abuse of blasphemy laws, a culture of impunity, discrimination, incitement of violence in the name of religion, coerced faith conversions and forced child marriages
On June 30, the World Sindhi Congress held an interactive discussion in Peterborough, Canada, titled “Current Situation in Pakistan - What the Oppressed Nations Should Do?"
Ganga Jamna School in MP's Damoh hit the headlines after purported posters of the school went viral on social media in which a few Hindu girls were allegedly seen wearing Hijab.
"When those people who follow Dharma become lax, then the unrighteousness increases and this is what is happening today. They (referring to people belonging to a different community) are moving with their mission," BJP MP Thakur said.
The speakers eloquently highlighted Raj Kumar Wanjara's pivotal role as a leading voice against the heinous practice of forced conversions of Sindhi Hindu girls in Pakistan, orchestrated by state proxies. They emphasized how Raj Kumar's personal tragedy, exemplified by the forced conversion
In the southern province of Sindh, which is home to nearly 90 per cent of the Hindu minority group, forced conversions to Islam of kidnapped Hindu girls and their subsequent forced weddings to Muslim men--usually to the abductors--are quite common, reported HRWF.