Pakistan Christian Couple Accuse local leader's Son Of Abducting, Marrying Off Minor Daughter

The girl's mom additionally said that the Ghazi police has no longer registered an FIR (Representational)

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa:

A Christian couple here has accused the son of a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief of being involved in abducting, forcibly changing and marrying off their "underage" daughter.

The couple in a video message on Wednesday alleged that a resident of their locality had kidnapped their daughter mentioning that the son of a native chief became involved within the abduction, crack of dawn reported.

The lady's mom Noreen Maseeh also said that the Ghazi police has no longer registered an FIR and entreated her not to pursue the case insisting that her daughter had eloped with the accused and converted to Islam before marrying him within the courtroom. "My daughter is a minor infant, who cannot be married off below the law," Noreen Maseeh stated. She said her daughter is a ninth-grader who went missing from her room at round 12:45am on August 3 whereas making ready for her exam which changed into to be held the next morning. meanwhile, the Ghazi police officers referred to that the preliminary investigation confirmed that the Christian girl had solemnised court docket marriage in Swabi after converting to Islam of her personal free will, but he has not bought any files about this, first light pronounced citing SHO of Ghazi police station.

In fresh years, there has been a surge in attacks on the place of worship of spiritual minorities in Pakistan. The country has been time and again slammed by using the foreign neighborhood for no longer safeguarding the activity of its minorities.

In a fresh construction, a mob comprising over a dozen guys armed with sticks had vandalised a Hindu temple in village Bhong of Rahim Yar Khan, shouting slogans and desecrated idols within the vicinity of worship.

Pakistani lawmaker and Hindu group leader Ramesh Kumar Vankwani shared videos of the incident. in a single of the videos, the mob may also be seen destroying the infrastructure of the temple.

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