A 25-year-old Hindu woman named Sunita was abducted from Zubaida Heights Apartments in Sindh, Pakistan, where she worked as a domestic helper. The next day, she was forcibly converted to Islam in Hyderabad.
Sunita managed to contact her elder sister from Hyderabad’s Chandni Chowk, revealing that an unknown Muslim woman, assisted by several men, had kidnapped her at gunpoint under the pretense of securing a job. They transported her to Hyderabad and coerced her into reciting the Kalma loudly.
Further details from Sunita’s niece indicated that a Muslim woman on the sixth floor of Zubeida Heights, where Sunita worked, had persistently pressured her to recite the Kalma and planned to take her to Karachi without her parents’ knowledge.
Recently, a ten year old girl named Jamuna, daughter of a local Hindu labourer Channu Kohli, was kidnapped, rape & converted to Islam.
This incident highlights the precarious situation for Hindu citizens in Pakistan. They face widespread marginalization, denied access to jobs, education, and healthcare. Many live in slums, their temples vandalized, and their dead exhumed from cemeteries. Derogatory terms like “kafir” (infidel) are commonplace, reinforcing their status as unwelcome.
Pakistan’s treatment of its Hindu minority is a “slow-motion ethnic cleansing.” Legal safeguards are lacking, and laws against forced conversion are routinely blocked by religious hardliners. This pervasive discrimination leaves Hindus, especially women and girls, vulnerable to abduction and forced conversion.