In Tando Allahyar, a district in Pakistan's Sindh province, two sisters aged thirteen and fourteen stood outside a courthouse and wept, asking only to return to their parents after being abducted, forcibly converted, and married to adult men. A judge declined their plea and ordered them to a safe house instead — a decision that crystallized, in one moment, the precarious existence of Hindu minorities in a region where the poorest communities have the least access to the protections the law nominally promises them. Their case is not isolated but part of a documented pattern stretching across ye
Pakistani court denies Hindu sisters' plea to return home after forced conversion
Two Hindu sisters aged 13-14 were abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to Muslim men; six additional Hindu minor girls were abducted and converted within 10 days in the same district.