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Pakistan: ‘Hindu girl forced to convert to Islam’

Pakistan: ‘Hindu girl forced to convert to Islam’

ExpressIndia and Agencies report: “A Hindu  girl from Punjab province was kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam  and is currently being held in a madrassa, leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney said today.”
— “Burney said his rights organisation, the Ansar Burney Trust International, had learnt that 15-year-old Gajri, the daughter of Mengha Ram, was abducted by a Muslim neighbour from her home at Katchi Mandi, Liaquatpur, in Rahim Yar Khan district on December 21, 2009.”
— “Gajri’s parents later found out that she was beingheld captive in a madrassa or seminary in southern Punjab and that she had been married and converted to Islam, Burney said.”
— “The local administration is ‘refusing to respond to the abduction’ of the girl, who is not being allowed to leave the madrassa or to speak to her parents, he said.”

Pakistan Hindu Post report