**Islamabad (AsiaNews) - District judge Mian Muhammad Naeem, of the section of Muzaffargarh, has ruled that the two Christian sisters “have converted in a legitimate manner to Islam”, and for this reason they cannot be “restored to their family of origin”. Setting aside the request from their father to regain custody of his daughters, the judge also admitted the “validity” of the marriage of the girls to two Muslims. Saba Younas, aged 13, and her sister Anila were kidnapped last June 26 in the village of Chowk Munda, in the province of Punjab, where they had gone to visit their uncle, Khalid Raheel. This is the same uncle who in recent days reported their kidnapping, asking for help from news organisations and human rights groups. According to Raheel’s account, a Muslim fruit vendor named Muhammad Arif Bajwa kidnapped the girls, and then handed them over to a friend, Falak Sher Gill, who then organised the marriage between his own son and the older of the Christian sisters, Saba. In court, moreover, father and son both stressed the “complete willingness of the girl to contract marriage”.
The girls’ uncle does not conceal his preoccupation, and denounces to AsiaNews that the Muslims involved in the kidnapping are acting as a “gang”, recruiting the girls in order to “make them work in a bordello”. This alarm has also been heard by the Catholic commission for justice and peace (NCJP) in the country, which confirms the words of Khalid Raheel: the kidnappers are believed to be human traffickers linked to prostitution, known to the police and under the protection of some local politicians. “For these unscrupulous people”, charges Naeem Asghar, local coordinator of the NCJP, marriage is a pretence in order to control the girls, run their lives and exploit them for their own business purposes".
The Catholic community continues to uphold the cause of Saba and Anila, and promises that the family will not be left to itself. Expressing the hope that the girls will be brought back home, the coordinator of the NCJP emphasises that “an appeal will soon be presented to the high court of Multan, to contest the decision of the district judge” and have the girls “restored to their parents”.
Also, this website asianews.it is BS! Just look at the front page full of garbage!
These girls prolly converted on their own free wills, leave it upto a pro-christian website to twist the facts, and non-Pakistanis to make a big hype out of it.
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Now the chirstian community agrees to the fact that the so called kidnappers ( as i am not aware of the story) are involved in human trafickking and prostitution business, so what has this to do with any religion or race?
either chirstian or muslim, what ever they have done ( if true) is not acceptable by any noble society or human.
Still I am not able to connect this thing with Pakistan, lots of girls from Eastern Europe, Balkan, India, Nepal, Philipine are suffering from the same, why it is that if it happens in Pakistan then it is a news?
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This is very common practice in Pakistan to condone such barbaric uncivilized acts such as kidnapping, forcibly converting and marrying under aged girls!
What a rotten society! everyone should be ashamed of this and raise against this kind of crime. In particular the religious people must stand up and reject this conversion - otherwise your religion is tainted!
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Come on guys, this has emerged in the past and was clearly dismissed as bakwas. Same thing happened when Youhanna converted, people started pointing fingers at Inzi, and even Youhanna's parents made a big fuss about their good christian boy being brainwashed and forced by higher ups in the team.
This is very common practice in Pakistan to condone such barbaric uncivilized acts such as kidnapping, forcibly converting and marrying under aged girls!
What a rotten society! everyone should be ashamed of this and raise against this kind of crime. In particular the religious people must stand up and reject this conversion - otherwise your religion is tainted!
Ranji sahab, maybe pick up your local indian news paper and you will certainly find plently of such incidents happening in india.
Just few incidents don't make our society a rotten society. First go and take a look at your own mighty society and then talk about us.
You have such a great trust in the courts. Good for you. Maybe not so good for the girls I suppose.
Did you bother to check out the 'site' which posted the news? Do check out their frontpage, its not very happy with India's treatment of Christians either. Its run by some nut case missionaries I think.