A Pakistani court has ruled that a 14-year-old Christian girl legally married a Muslim man who allegedly abducted her at gunpoint. The girl’s mother, Nighat Shahbaz of Madina Town, Faisalabad, has registered a case at the local police station against Muslim man, Naqash. She believes he kidnapped her daughter Maira Shahbaz. Maira was abducted in…
The Sindh High Court has dismissed a petition to overturn the marriage and forced conversion of a 14-year-old Catholic girl. Huma Younas was abducted last October and forced to marry a Muslim. But the court ruled that because she had reached adulthood, both the marriage and conversion were valid. Her lawyers said that if necessary…
A 14-year-old Pakistani Christian boy was killed and then hanged to make locals think he had committed suicide. Suleman Hadayat Maish was murdered by his aggressive employer on May 8, in Chehl Kalan village in Gujranwala, Punjab. Suleman’s dead body was found hanging in the stables at Noorpur, Chehl Kalan, Qila Didar Singh. Suleman used…
