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Pakistan: women abducted

A Pakistani Muslim NGO said in June that every year between 100 to 700 Christian women, ‘usually between the ages of 12 and 25 are abducted, converted to Islam, and married to the abductor or third party’.

World Watch Monitor

In its investigative report ‘Forced Marriages and Forced Conversions in the Christian Community of Pakistan’ the Movement for Solidarity and Peace (MSP) identified a pattern. In most of the abduction cases the parents of Christian victims file a police report, but in response the abductor’s relatives or friends file another police complaint on behalf of the abducted Christian woman, claiming that she wilfully married and converted to Islam, and that her parents are now ‘harassing’ her unlawfully.