Holi of cries and worries! Two Hindu teenage girls in Sindh allegedly abducted and forcefully converted to Islam

NewsBharati    22-Mar-2019
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Karachi, March 22: Holi is always considered as a festival of victory of good against evil, colourful vibes of happiness and joy. But what happens when these colours of joy turn into cry of loss? Loss of your dear ones..!

 

One such dreadful incident took place in Sindh wherein two teen girls were abducted and forcefully converted into Islam. It was on Wednesday, 20 March, when the two teenage Hindu girls from Pakistan were allegedly abducted from Ghotki in Sindh, on the eve of Holi. People came down on streets of Daharki town of Sindh’s Ghotki district protesting and urging for justice by bringing back the kidnapped girls.

Hailing from a scheduled caste, Hindu community leaders alleged that the kidnapped teens namely Reveena and Reena had been abducted by people from the Kohbar and Malik tribes on the eve of Holi. The girls Raveena and Reena age 16 and 14 respectively.

A community leader from the protest said, “We approached the police to lodge a first information report (FIR) but all in vain”. A video has been uploaded on social media where the girls are asked to convey a message that they have not been forced and are willingly embracing Islam. Hindu community leader Mukhi Shiv Menghwar said that “it was not free will and the girls were in fact kidnapped and forcibly converted”.

Forcefully abduction and conversion of religion has been quite evident and rigid in Pakistan especially by torturing the minorities. Minorities community are very much depressed because no action taken for their rights. Many protest and seminars done for the amendments National level but nothing going on till now. Representatives of Hindu Community those are in the Parliaments they doing their own work not serious with the community work.

In the aftermath of the incident, MPA Nand Kumar Goklani, who had initially moved a bill against forced conversions, urged the government to get a law passed immediately. It was in the year 2016, the Sindh Assembly passed a law against forced conversions, which was contested by religious parties. Succumbing to the mounting pressure, the Sindh government and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leadership later asked the then-governor, Justice (retd) Saeeduzaman Siddiqui, not to ratify the bill.

The minorities in these areas especially in Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan, Sindh have been under tremendous pressure with various atrocities pondered on them and they have been approaching the international organisations to take stringent actions against the authorities who give a blind eye to such harassment.