On July 23, Pakistani Christian sisters, aged 13 and 18, were kidnapped from their home in Pattoki Tehsil, Kasur District, Punjab Province, Pakistan. Their abductors, brothers Muhammad Zain and Muhammad Ali, accompanied by more people, broke into the girls home at night and took the girls with them. Later, they forced the girls to marry them and convert to Islam.

According to attorney Sumera Shafique, even though the parents registered a report about the incident, the police did not cooperate, and they had to start searching for their daughters themselves. The family lives in poverty and had to take loans in order to be able to finance their search. The mother of the two girls said: 

“Whenever we received information from someone about my daughters’ whereabouts, my husband and eldest son would immediately go to those cities to look for them. We had to take loans to meet the travel expenses, and we are now under a huge debt.”

Shortly after the kidnapping, the family received images of Islamic conversion and Islamic marriage certificates of their daughters, their 13-year-old shown as 19 and their 18-year-old shown as 21 on the marriage certificates.

Finally, on September 11, Lahore High Court Justice Muhammad Tariq Nadeem ordered the police to recover the girls from their abductors. After the case was opened in court, relatives of the accused tried to persuade the family to drop the charges and forget about their daughters. When the father confronted them, he was attacked by an axe. The last hope of the family to get their daughters back is that the court will uphold its order and obtain  justice for the family.

Source: Christian Daily

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