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Not all are love struck as per the media reports, including Pakistan media.I believe most of these girls are love-struck and have converted into Islam to marry their partner. Families of girls say such things because according to them their girls are the most innocent people on earth who are being manipulated by others.
It is to marry them and convert so that the number dwindles.
Express Tribune is a Pakistani newspaper.Pak Hindu girl 'converted' to Islam, married off to Muslim
A teenage Hindu girl in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi was allegedly forcibly converted to Islam and married off to a Muslim man, prompting her family to lodge a police complaint.
The case of the girl identified as Bharti, who has been renamed Ayesha following her conversion, is the 18th instance of forced conversions and marriages in the Lyari area of Karachi, The Express Tribune reported on Sunday.......
"She is being pressurised to say that she converted because of her own free will, else we would be harmed," said her father, Narain Das.........
Das is not opposed to his daughter converting to Islam. His son converted too and lives in the same house.
"My son converted to Islam and lives with us. I have no issues with him. I have no issues with the girl either. She should not be forced into converting," he said.
Amarnath Motumal, Vice Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, is representing the Das family in court.
He said he had seen many girls forcefully converted and never returning home again.
"Her (Bharti's) statement will be recorded on Monday. Let's see what the court decides. Maybe it will be the last time her family will see her," he said.
Before she headed to court, Bharti said her marriage and conversion was a spontaneous decision.
"I liked Abid a lot. I went to the market to meet him and we decided then and there to run away," she said.
Her father-in-law Mohammad Anwar, a constable at Preedy police station, said with a smile: "...she always wanted to be a Muslim and has knowledge about Islam."
The Das family said it feared that if the court releases the girl to Abid's family, she will be "sold or murdered."
The relatives said they wanted a guarantee that they will be allowed to meet Bharti and that she will be in safe hands.
Pak Hindu girl 'converted' to Islam, married off to Muslim : Pakistan News - India Today