In the early hours of April 22, 2024, a 13-year-old girl from the Gujarati community, named Neena, mysteriously vanished from her family home in Kot Ghulam Mohammad. Her family discovered her disappearance at dawn. They suspect Mehdi Hassan, also known as Mido Khaskheli, was involved in her sudden absence. Reports suggest […]
On August 19, 2021, during Ashura, a significant day of mourning, nine-year-old Priya Kumari vanished. Moments before her potential abduction, she was joyfully assisting her father—a Hindu who embraces the syncretic traditions and annually operates a sabeel during Muharram in Sanghar, a small town near Sukkur—by distributing sherbet to the mourners. […]
On Thursday, April 11, U.N. Human Rights experts issued a call for Pakistan to implement legal reforms in response to the ongoing vulnerability of women and girls from minority faiths to forced marriages and religious conversions. The U.N. special rapporteurs urged Pakistan to increase the legal marriage age for girls to […]