Vancouver: The World Baloch Women’s Forum’s President, Naela Quadri Baloch on Friday demanded the Pakistani Government to give the strictest punishments to the perpetrators who forcibly converted a Sikh girl to Islam and got her married to a man of Pakistan.
“In any civilised society this would have led to an outcry and the government would have quickly intervened to restore the girl to her family and ensure their safety. But that is too much to ask from Pakistan’s government,” Baloch said in a statement.
“The Pakistani government and even the liberal English media do not find anything odd in this. In fact, rape, abduction and torture is part of their standard operating procedure of the army-controlled Pakistani state. These things have become normalised in Pakistan,” she claimed.
“The girl deserves to go back to her family and the criminals who forced her to go through this unfortunate ordeal deserve the strictest of punishments,” she added.
The family of the abducted girl say that she was converted and married off to a Muslim boy. The nineteen-year-old girl, Jagjit Kaur, is a daughter of a Sikh priest at Gurudwara Tambu Sahib.
Activists have now successfully brought out the minority issues faced in Pakistan in front of the world community.
