Video clips of the ceremony went viral across the country, delighting hard-line Muslims and weighing on Pakistan’s dwindling Hindu minority. Treated as second-class citizens, the Hindus of Pakistan are often systemically discriminated against in every walk of life — housing, jobs, access to government welfare. Forced conversions of Hindu girls and women to Islam through kidnapping and coerced marriages occur throughout Pakistan. They are extremely poor and illiterate, and Muslim mosques, charities and traders exploit them easily and lure them to convert to Islam. A lot of money is involved in it.”Clerics like Muhammad Naeem were at the forefront of an effort to convert more Hindus.

Source: bd News24 August 05, 2020 05:03 UTC