Hindu Minor Sisters Break Down After Pakistan Court Refuses To Send Them Home

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The sisters were produced before a court in Tando Allahyar in connection with a kidnapping case. Their family has alleged that the girls were abducted, converted to Islam and married to Amjad Solangi and Mansoor Solangi.

 

According to US-based Sindhi-rights group Sindh Renaissance, the girls repeatedly pleaded that they wanted to return home. A video shared by Pakistani journalist and activist Veengas showed the sisters crying outside the court after the hearing. Social activist Sorath Sindhu said the girls had clearly expressed their wish to go home and called for their statements to be recorded in a child-sensitive environment.

 

The court, however, ordered that the sisters be moved to a safe house for two days. Activists have demanded independent legal and psychological assistance and said the girls' age, wishes and safety should remain central to the proceedings.

 

 

 

 Minority-rights campaigners claim official documents establish the sisters' ages as 13 and 14. If confirmed, both would be children under the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act, 2013, which sets the minimum marriage age at 18 for both men and women. The law also makes arranging or facilitating child marriage a cognisable, non-bailable and non-compoundable offence.

 

A day later, Veengas reported that another Hindu girl was allegedly abducted from Tando Allahyar on September 9. She said reports suggested that six Hindu minor girls had been abducted and converted to Islam in the district within 10 days.

 

Sindh, which is home to most of Pakistan's Hindu population, has repeatedly witnessed allegations involving the abduction, conversion and marriage of Hindu girls, particularly from poor Kolhi, Bheel and Meghwar communities.

 

 

In July 2025, families of Khenchi Kolhi, Lata Devi Meghwar and Meena Meghwar filed separate FIRs alleging kidnapping and forced conversion. The three later told the Sindh High Court's Hyderabad Circuit Bench that they had converted and married voluntarily, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

 

In 2023, a peace-monitoring report also recorded the alleged abduction of 13-year-old Roshni Meghwar from Nasarpur in Tando Allahyar.

 

Amnesty International has said that hundreds of young Hindu women in Pakistan have faced abduction, forced conversion and forced marriage, while also warning about discrimination against Hindus, attacks on temples and businesses, and misuse of blasphemy allegations.

 

However, the exact circumstances surrounding the latest sisters' disappearance, conversion and alleged marriages have not yet been independently established through publicly available police or court documents.