Islamabad (Staff Report): Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the Punjab and Sindh governments to launch probe into reports of abduction, forced conversion and underage marriages of two teenage Hindu girls.
“Prime Minister Khan has asked the Sindh and Punjab governments to investigate reports of the two girls being shifted to Rahim Yar Khan from Ghotki,” Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry tweeted. “The prime minister further asked that the two girls be retrieved if they have indeed been moved to the city,” he added.
In videos circulating on social media, the father and brother of the girls say that the two sisters were abducted and forced into changing their religion from Hinduism to Islam.
However, a separate video of the girls is also making rounds, in which they say that they accepted Islam of their own free will.
“Mam its Pakistin internal issue and rest assure its not Modi’s India where minorities are subjugated its Imran Khan’s Naya Pak where white color of our flag is equally dearer to us.I hope you ll act with same diligence when it comes to rights of Indian Minorities,” said Chaudhry in response to Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj’s tweet.
Chaudhry had also tweeted on Saturday that the government had taken notice of reports of the alleged forced conversion and underage marriages of the two girls in Ghotki.