In a bone-chilling incident, a six-year-old-Christian girl named Minahil, a student at the Hassan School System and Pre-Cadet Studies, has reported being raped by a radical Islamists school cleaner named Hassan. The child returned home at midday and recounted to her mother the harrowing experience of being led behind some plants near the school by her rapist.
This incident is part of a distressing trend in Pakistan, where Christian and Hindu girls are increasingly abducted, raped, forcefully converted, and married off to their captors. Such acts form part of a broader pattern of violence and exploitation aimed at religious minorities. Even minor girls are vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude, and sexual violence.
The ability of islamists like the cleaner to act with such impunity reflects an environment fostered by the Paki establishment, which has given free hand to these monsters to exploit minority vulnerable communities. The systemic failures of law enforcement and judiciary empower these perpetrators, allowing them to exploit legal loopholes and vague religious laws to retain victims against their will. This legal framework effectively sanctions the very crimes committed against these minority girls.