According to reports, minor girl identified as Nilan Kolhi was allegedly abducted from Haji Sultan Tangri near Naukot.

Naukot Mirpurkhas Sindh:
A minor Hindu girl Nilan Kolhi, a 12-year-old was abducted by Altaf Tingri and his accomplices from the village of Haji Sultan Tangri near Naukot.
Parents are protesting #StopForcedConversions#saveminoritygirls#SaveMinoritiesInPakistan pic.twitter.com/yHtHHVwXLn

— Narain Das Bheel (@NarainDasBheel8) April 13, 2023

The girl’s parents protested against the kidnapping.
According to the parents, the police registered the FIR stating the girl’s age to be 17-year-old whereas, they maintained, the girl is 12-year-old.

The kidnapping and abduction case of Nilan Kolhi, a 12-year-old minor Hindu girl kidnapped from Nayon Kot, has been registered against four accused. The parents said that the girl’s age is 12-13 years, but Police have mentioned 17-18 years in FIR.#HinduLivesMatters https://t.co/JdaKR05Q1J pic.twitter.com/rb8Vjb54Tx

— Narain Das Bheel (@NarainDasBheel8) April 13, 2023

The United Nations had also urged Pakistan to curtail the practice of forced marriages of young girls from religious minorities to Muslim men. The United Nations also called on Pakistani authorities to adopt and implement legislation in this regard.

In a statement, the UN further “expressed alarm” that young girls from religious minorities are kidnapped, trafficked, forcibly converted to Islam, and forced to marry men. The statement called on Pakistani authorities to curb this practice and uphold international human rights law.

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Abdul Hameed sexually assaulted the minor student during Quran lessons inside a room attached to the mosque.

The suspect is the head of a local religious seminary and the presiding imam of a mosque.

The police arrested the religious teacher after the victim’s family lodged a First Information Report (FIR). The medical examination confirmed the girl was raped.

According to a report by an NGO working on child protection, Sahil, over 12 children were sexually abused daily in Pakistan and as many as 4,253 cases of child sexual abuse were reported in Pakistan during 2022.

The Sahil’s report “Cruel Numbers” compiled cases reported from four provinces of Pakistan and included Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), and Gilgit Baltistan (GB).

Out of the total reported cases, 2,325 victims were girls (55%) and 1,928 (45%) were boys. 2022 saw an increase of 33 per cent when it comes to the cases of child abuse from the previous year.

Earlier, a nine-year-old disabled child was found raped and murdered in Karachi’s Korangi area.

The police have arrested two people for investigation.

In another incident, a six-year-old girl was found raped and murdered in the Bin Qasim area, Karachi.

According to the medical examination, the girl was brutally raped and then murdered. The girl’s body was recovered from a drain near National Highway.

In 2018, the gruesome murder and rape of six-year-old Zainab Ansari in Kasur, Punjab, shook the nation, leading to widespread protests.

Zainab went missing on January 4th, 2018, and her body was found five days later in a heap of trash. The six-year-old was raped and tortured before being strangled to death.

Later that year, police caught 24-year-old Imran Ali for raping and murdering Zainab. Imran Ali was convicted of similar crimes against six more girls and was handed a death sentence. The convict was hanged in October 2018.

In 2020, parliament passed a new law against child abuse in the wake of Zainab’s case.

The country’s first national child abuse law introduced a penalty of life imprisonment for child abuse. The law mandates police to register a case within two hours of a child’s parents reporting them missing.

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Justice Qazi Faez Isa made these remarks and rejected the bail application of Syed Zafar Ali Shah, who is accused of marrying a 14 year-old-girl for which a case was registered in August 2021.

Aaj News reported that a three-member bench also directed the trial court to wrap up the case quickly.

During the hearing, Justice Isa also asked Shah’s lawyer about the punishment for marrying an underage girl. To this, the lawyer replied that according to Pakistan’s laws marrying a girl under the age of sixteen is a crime and punishable by life imprisonment, however, Sharia law states that a fourteen-and-a-half-year-old girl can get married.

Justice Isa told the lawyer that he is confessing to his client’s crime by telling the court that he has married an underage girl.

Shah’s lawyer argued that the medical examination has proven the girl’s age to be seventeen years old. The court dismissed the argument saying that the official document, Birth Certificate, states that the girl is 14, therefore the court does not need to look at a medical report.

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According to the medical examination, the girl was brutally raped and then murdered. The girl’s body was recovered from a drain near National Highway.

The girl had gone missing while playing outside her home three days ago and the family had lodged a complaint at a police station.

In 2018, the gruesome murder and rape of six-year-old Zainab Ansari in Kasur, Punjab, shook the nation, leading to widespread protests.

Zainab went missing on January 4th, 2018, and her body was found five days later in a heap of trash. The six-year-old was raped and tortured before being strangled to death.

Later that year, police caught 24-year-old Imran Ali for raping and murdering Zainab. Imran Ali was convicted of similar crimes against six more girls and was handed a death sentence. The convict was hanged in October 2018.

In 2020, parliament passed a new law against child abuse in the wake of Zainab’s case.

The country’s first national child abuse law introduced a penalty of life imprisonment for child abuse. The law mandates police to register a case within two hours of a child’s parents reporting them missing.

Nearly 10 cases of child abuse a day are reported in Pakistan, with girls mostly affected, according to Sahil, an organisation that works on child protection.

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