An 18-year-old Hindu girl was shot dead during a failed abduction attempt, media reports say. Pooja Oad was said to have been shot in the middle of the street in Rohi, Sukkur. She was reportedly killed after she put up resistance to the attackers.
Christian and Hindu girls are being forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan. Women belonging to minority communities are regularly abducted and forcibly converted. Rights group says the country’s minority communities have long faced the issue of forced marriages and conversions.
Earlier, the provincial government in Sindh had attempted to outlaw forced conversions and marriages. However, religious protestors contested the bill, stating that girls only convert after falling in love with Muslim men.
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