Pakistan: Following A Failed Kidnapping Attempt An 18-Year-Old Hindu Girl Was Shot In Middle Of The Road
Lahore, Mar 22: In Pakistan, the attackers shot dead in the middle of the road after they failed in their attempt to kidnap a Hindu girl. Newspaper ‘The Friday Times’ reported that 18-year-old Pooja Od protested the kidnappers in Rohi, Sukkur, after which she was shot in the middle of the road.
According to the People’s Commission for Minorities Rights and the Center for Social Justice, Pooja was first tried to kidnap her on the road and when she protested, the assailants shot her in the middle of the street. Every year women belonging to minority communities, especially in Sindh, are abducted and forcibly converted by religious extremists, The Friday Times reported.
It also said that Pakistan’s minority communities have been facing forced marriages and conversions for a long time. There have been many cases of religious conversion and forced marriage in Sindh province of Pakistan. Once again a similar case has come to the fore where an 18-year-old girl was shot in public.
In the land of the pure where every day Hindu, Christian daughters are lost to abductions, forced conversions, marriages and Pakistan continues to be a bystander. Pooja Kumari Odh, an 18-year-old shot dead by Wahid Lashari on resisting abduction, conversion in Sukkur, Sindh. pic.twitter.com/7Yo6DQdp9R
— Naila Inayat (@nailainayat) March 21, 2022
In the year 2019, the Sindh government also tried to enact a law to prevent forced conversion and marriage of Hindu minorities, but due to strong protests and demonstrations, the law could not be enacted. As a result, even today, the painful process of change religion or die continues. Let us tell you that from the year 2013 to 2019, 156 incidents of religious conversion have been registered.
