Topic

forced conversion

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Claim: A video on social media shows a 9-year-old Hindu girl, Reshma, who was forcibly abducted and taken to a Sufi shrine, where she was converted to Islam and married to a 45-year-old Muslim man from Jacobabad named Wazir Hussain. Fact: The claim is false as the video is from 2019 and shows a girl […]

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Claim: A video circulating on social media shows a minor Hindu girl who was kidnapped by a man in Pakistan being forcibly converted to Islam. Fact: The video does not show a forced conversion but a man who identified as a pir [faith healer] giving electric shocks to exorcise jinn [djinn] from a young girl, […]

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Claim: Unidentified men gang-raped a minor girl from the Christian community in Faisalabad after she refused to convert to Islam. They also tortured her and cut her hair. Fact: The minor Chrisitan girl in question was neither sexually abused nor forced to convert to Islam. However, she has an undiagnosed ailment that led a pastor […]

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Claim: The Sindh High Court has released culprits in Arzoo Raja abduction case, charges have been dismissed, as judge remarked that it is not a case of rape. Fact: Offence of Rape was declared and the court ordered the absconders to be arrested. On 13 October 2020, Arzoo Raja, a thirteen year-old Christian girl, was […]

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