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 […]
A Christian widow and mother of three was abducted, raped, murdered and her body doused with acid by four Muslim men after she reportedly refused to convert to Islam and marry one of the accused, her brother said. “My sister Shazia Imran, 40, lived with her three children in a rented […]