In a heart-wrenching case that exemplifies the dire plight faced by religious minorities in Pakistan, Masheel Rasheed, a 16-year-old Christian girl, was abducted, subjected to sexual assault, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to Abdul Sattar, her abductor. Masheel Rasheed is the youngest daughter of Rasheed Masih, the sole Christian family […]
Are tribal girls there to be given names at an early age, the boy to grow up to become a criminal and an advertiser, then to be forced into marriage by the tribe and the decisions of the girls’ lives to be made in the panchayat?” These are the words of […]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday (Aug. 29) ordered the government to respond to a petition to stop courts from allowing forced conversion and marriage of minority girls in verdicts that act as covers for child rape, sources said. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Ayesha Malik gave the […]