PAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN GIRL ABDUCTED, FORCED INTO ISLAMIC MARRIAGE, BEATEN, TORTURED & RAPED
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The abuse of Christians, which includes the violation and torture of young Christian girls, continues in Pakistan (and elsewhere), while Pakistani leader Imran Khan complains about how hurtful it is to Muslims when Islam is insulted.“Court orders return of Pakistani Christian teen raped and tortured in forced Islamic marriage,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, April 16, 2019:A Pakistani court has ordered the return of a Christian teenager who was abducted and forced into an Islamic marriage in March after the victim gave testimony of how she was beaten, tortured and raped, rights groups are reporting.Shalet Masih, believed to be about 15-years-old, was rescued by a police raid at the home of her captor, Zafar Iqbal, last Wednesday morning, according to the London-based NGO British Pakistani Christian Association.Masih was said to have been kidnapped on March 25 after leaving her family’s home in Faisalabad, Pakistan’s third most populous city.Although she left the home following an argument with her brother, Masih reportedly headed to a family friend’s house. However, BPCA reports that Masih was eventually sold into slavery by a neighbor of the family friend to a Muslim man.After Masih’s family and NGOs pressured police to intervene, a woman by the name of Rukhsana was arrested.According to BPCA, Rukhsana is alleged to have confessed to police that she sold Masih to a man who she knew to be involved in sex trafficking. However, the woman could not tell police where the girl was at that time.
