Delhi Sikh leader condemns Sindh High Court's decision

Reacting to the judgement of  Sindh High Court regarding the minor girl case, Delhi Sikh leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa said that it is shocking and the world should listen to pleas of minorities in Pakistan, while the same rule does not apply to Muslim girls.

New Delhi:The persecution of minorities in Pakistan continues unabated as another incident of abduction and forcible conversion of girls belonging to minority communities to Islam have come to the fore.

Reacting to the judgement of Sindh High Court regarding the minor girl case, Delhi Sikh leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa said that it is shocking and the world should listen to pleas of minorities in Pakistan, while the same rule does not apply to Muslim girls.

"It is a shameful incident for Pakistan government that the Sindh High Court has taken the decision as per the Sharia law, even if Huma was found to be underage. The marriage between her and alleged abductor Jabbar would be valid, as she has already had her first menstrual cycle," he added.

"Girls from other minority groups aren’t safe in Pakistan either. The forceful conversion programmes have often been unleashed against the minorities especially Christians, Sikhs and Hindus living in Pakistan with the utmost brutality," Singh further added.

Notably, Huma Younus, a 14-year-old Christian girl from Karachi, who was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to the abductor Abdul Jabbar.