Horrifying and scary, now schools in Pakistan don’t seem safe; Teenage girl forcefully converted to Islam by Principal

New Delhi, September 7: With India progressing in solidarity of its citizens, neighbouring country Pakistan lacks behind loading atrocities on people residing there. In yet another horrifying incident of forced conversion, a 15-year-old Christian girl was allegedly converted to Islam by her teacher in the Punjab province in Pakistan.

 

Horrifying and scary as it sounds, the girl was converted in a seminar conducted in her school where her school principal Saleema Bibi and was forced to embrace Islam. Filing a complaint, the girl’s father Mukhtar Masih stated that his daughter named Faira, was allegedly taken to a seminary in Sheikhpura City, some 50 kilometers away from Lahore, by her school principal Saleema Bibi and was forced to embrace Islam.

Faiza was in the seminary and her parents were not allowed to meet her. They later took the matter to a Punjab minister and an FIR was lodged. The conversion took place on Monday and Faiza was rescued by the police on Wednesday. She was shifted to Dar ul Aman and Will be handed over to the family.

Given that she is 15, this conversion would be reversed by law because in Punjab, the criteria for being an adult is over 16. This is the third incident of forced conversion reported from Pakistan in a week.

Earlier in September, a Hindu girl was allegedly abducted from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Sukkur in the Sindh province of Pakistan and was forcefully converted to Islam. The undergraduate student, identified as Renuka Kumari, was abducted from her college.

In a similar incident, a 19-year-old girl Jagjit Kaur was abducted and forcefully converted to Islam before being married to a Muslim man in the Punjab province. The incident came to light after a Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa shared a video of the girl's family alleging that she was abducted and forcefully converted. In the viral video, the family of the girl had complained to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan claiming that their daughter was kidnapped by six people at gunpoint on the intervening night of August 27 and August 28. They also added that despite lodging an FIR, no action was taken.