Video: ‘Hindu girls being forcibly converted to Islam,’ reveals Hindu senator in Pakistan

A Hindu senator in Pakistan has raised concerns over the grave human rights crisis in thecountry’sSindh province. Danesh Kumar Palyani revealed that Hindu girls in the province arebeing forcibly convertedto Islam. Speaking during the ongoing 337th session of the Pakistan Senate, Palyani citedPakistan’sconstitution and the holy Quran to say that no one shouldbe forcedto convert.

"You see in Sindh, bandits are forcefully converting our Hindu girls to Islam. Bandits in mud forts areas kidnap people but Bandits in settled areas are forcing girls to convert their religion. However, Pakistan gives us the right that no one should force anyone else to convert,"the senator said.

The Pakistani leader also shared his speech on X, writing,“The daughters of Hindus are not a booty that someone should forcibly change their religion, Hindu girls are being forcibly converted to the religion in Sindh. It has been two years since innocent Priya Kumari was abducted."

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"The government does not take action against these influential people.A few dirty eggs and robbers have defamed our beloved mother land Pakistan. The law/Constitution of Pakistan does not allow forced religious conversion and neither does the Holy Quran,"he added.

Palyani said the oppressorsdidn’tbelieve inPakistan’sconstitution and Quran as both opposethe “forcibly changing religion”of any individual.

Palyani’sstatement comes after a UN expert committee on April 11 found that the Pakistani government was not doing enough to protect the rights of young women and girls belonging to minority communities in Pakistan.

"Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence,"the experts panel said."The exposure of young women and girls belonging to religious minority communities to such heinous human rights violations and the impunity of such crimes can no longer be tolerated or justified,"it added.

In Pakistan, forced conversions and marriagesare often validatedby courts by invoking vague religious laws.Thisallows the perpetrators to keep the victims with them against the will of thegirl’sparents. The expert committee made clear that such forced marriages and conversionscan’tbe allowed on religious or cultural grounds.

(With inputs from agencies)