Pakistani Christian girl Abducted, shackled and forced to marry at 12

BBC ^ | 10 March 2021 | Mike Thompson

[Cronos]

Farah, a 12-year-old Christian girl, says she was taken from her home in Pakistan last summer, shackled, forced to convert to Islam and made to marry her kidnapper. It's a fate estimated to befall hundreds of Pakistani Christian, Hindu and Sikh girls yearly.

On 25 June, Farah was at home in Faisalabad, Pakistan's third most populous city, with her grandfather, three brothers and two sisters when they heard knocking on their front door. She remembers her grandfather going to open it. Then three men burst in, grabbed Farah and forced her into a van outside.

They warned the family that if they tried to get her back "they'd make us regret it", says Farah's father, Asif, who was at work at the time.

Asif went to the nearest police station to report the crime - even providing the name of one of the abductors, whom Farah's grandfather had recognised - but he says the officers showed little interest in helping.

"They were very unco-operative and refused to register the crime. Not only that but they pushed me around and verbally abused me."

Despite repeated complaints to the police it was three months before they finally registered the incident. And even then they took no action.

During this time, 12-year-old Farah, who'd been driven 70 miles to a house in the nearby city of Hafizabad, says she was raped, shackled and treated like a slave.

"I was chained most of the time and ordered to clean the abductor's home as well as take care of the animals in the yard outside. It was terrible,"

"They'd put chains on my ankles, and tied me with a rope. I tried to cut the rope and get the chains off, but I couldn't manage it. I prayed every night, saying, 'God, please help me.'"

[Cronos]

There were about two million Christians in Pakistan at the time of the last census, just over 1% of the total population.

According to human rights organisations as many as 1,000 Christian, Hindu and Sikh girls are abducted each year. Many of them are forced to convert to Islam, because it is widely believed in Pakistan that marriages under the age of 16 are acceptable under Sharia law if both of those marrying are Muslim. And this is what happened in Farah's case: she was forced to convert, then married by her abductor.

[Jonty30]

There is going to be war between India and Pakistan over this eventually.

[Cronos]

I just wish in 2003, instead of going into Gulf War 2, George W Bush had attacked Pakistan instead.

Think of what would have happened if he did

1. Osama dead in 2003 itself
2. No Islamic state arising
3. No thousands of American lives lost
4. No thousands of Iraqi lives lost
5. No reduction of Christians from 10% of the Iraqi population to 2%
6. No Obama election
7. a Trillion dollars saved
8. Could focus on the Taliban and crush them.
9. Could focus on China (a Paki ally) and no rise of China

[BiglyCommentary]

Then three men burst in, grabbed Farah

If that was my daughter, those 3 three would either be dead or castrated within one week.

[ScottinVA]

“There is going to be war between India and Pakistan over this eventually.”

India would do the world a huge favor by nuking Pakistan out of existence. Nothing but misery comes out of that wretched hellhole.