Hindu girl Kesho renamed "Aamina": Another Hindu girl vanishes into Sindh's forced conversion machine, Pakistan

Case ID : 30a8fa4 | Location : Sindh, Pakistan | Date of Incident : Wed, 6 May, 2026

Case ID : 30a8fa4

Sindh, Pakistan

6 May, 2026

Hindu girl Kesho renamed "Aamina": Another Hindu girl vanishes into Sindh's forced conversion machine, Pakistan

Predatory Proselytisation

Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion

Case Summary

A Hindu girl, Kesho, from a poor family in Hanjhatal village in Chhachro Taluka, Tharparkar, located in Sindh province of Pakistan, was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam, after which her name was changed to Aamina. She was taken away from her family without their consent. Thereafter, a video emerged in which she reappeared with her name recorded as Aamina and was shown as married to a Muslim man. Her family searched for her and approached the authorities but received no assistance. As Kesho's family lacked financial resources, social connections and influence, they were unable to secure effective intervention. At the time of writing this report, efforts to rescue her were being led by Nikhil Chandwani, a Hindu activist known for assisting thousands of persecuted Pakistani Hindus in seeking refuge in India and for his work in rescuing members of the Hindu community facing religious persecution in Pakistan. This case was not an isolated occurrence. The incident formed part of a continuing pattern in Sindh, where Hindu girls were abducted and converted. The Hinduphobia Tracker had previously documented multiple similar cases involving Hindu women and minor Hindu girls who were subjected to abduction, forced conversion to Islam, and forced marriage in Pakistan. In these cases, the victims were abducted and converted. Thereafter, they were made to appear in videos stating that they had not been abducted and that they had married of their own free will. These staged recordings were produced to deny the reality of coercion and to conceal the violation of their human rights. For example, in District Tando Muhammad Khan, Sindh, Pakistan, a minor Hindu girl named Maya Kohli was abducted from her home, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to a Muslim man. The conversion was performed by Peer Agha Jaan Sarhandi at the Dargah Gulzar-e-Khalil in Samaro, and the nikah was solemnised in the Mirpurkhas court, where her name was changed to Muskhan. Thereafter, a video was recorded in which she was seen stating that she had married with her consent. These incidents reflected the broader pattern of persecution and insecurity faced by the Hindu minority in Pakistan, where Hindus continue to face systemic discrimination, communal hostility, religiously motivated violence, and social marginalisation because of their religious identity. Hindu temples and religious symbols are frequently vandalised, while Hindu individuals and families often face threats, intimidation, and mob violence. Hindu women and minor girls remain particularly vulnerable to abduction, forced conversion to Islam, and forced marriages to Muslim men. Blasphemy allegations are also disproportionately used against Hindus, often resulting in false accusations, communal mobilisation, arbitrary arrests, threats, and violent attacks. Many Hindu families are forced to flee their homes due to religious intolerance, living in constant fear of attacks. This sustained persecution highlights the dire conditions for Hindus in Pakistan, where their religious identity makes them targets of oppression. Such incidents create a constant atmosphere of fear and vulnerability within the Hindu community, highlighting the precarious condition of religious minorities in Pakistan.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Predatory Proselytisation. Within this, the subcategory selected is- Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion. Harassment covers a wide range of behaviours of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behaviour that demeans, humiliates, and intimidates a person, including threats and coercion. Harassment and threats, in this case, find their root on discriminatory grounds, which has the effect of nullifying a person’s rights or infringing upon his freedom to exercise his right specifically owing to the victim’s religious identity. Verbal and physical threats and psychological or physical harassment are often used against Hindu victims because they choose to practice their professed religion. Religious harassment also includes forced and involuntary conversions by harassment, threats or coercion. Coercion includes intimidatory tactics like force-feeding a Hindu victim beef to convert to another religion, forceful circumcision, etc. In several cases documented, non-Hindu perpetrators or those who harbour specific animosity towards Hinduism, harass victims simply based on their religious identity. Such cases often also include harassment to ensure the Hindu victim abandons his/her professed religion and adopts the religion of the perpetrator. Such cases, where Hindu victims are harassed to convert to the perpetrator’s religion, are rooted in animosity towards the victim’s religious identity and are therefore documented as religiously motivated hate crimes. This case was categorised as a hate crime, as the abduction and forced conversion of a Hindu girl in Pakistan, followed by her marriage to a Muslim man, clearly illustrated the exploitation of vulnerable Hindu minorities through coercion, threats and manipulation. Such incidents were not isolated occurrences but formed part of a persistent and deeply troubling pattern in Pakistan, where Hindu minorities, particularly young girls, were systematically targeted for abduction, forced religious conversion, and marriage to Muslim men. This ongoing trend revealed the entrenched discrimination and violence faced by Hindu communities, who had endured harassment, marginalisation, and abuse since the country’s inception. In this case, the victim, Kesho, was abducted specifically because of her Hindu identity, reflecting a recurring pattern in which minority girls in Pakistan were targeted based on their faith. After her abduction, she was converted and renamed Aamina. In this context, the act of forced religious declaration and conversion functioned as a method of religious domination and control, aimed at stripping her of her Hindu identity and imposing a new religious identity through coercion. It demonstrated a calculated effort to exercise control and inflict psychological trauma on both the individual victim and the broader Hindu community. Conversions carried out through intimidation, duress, or coercion cannot be regarded as genuine expressions of faith or voluntary belief. Rather, they constitute clear instances of religiously motivated hate crimes aimed at stripping Hindu girls of their religious identity. Such forced conversions violate the victim's religious autonomy and fundamental rights to practice her faith safely. It also reflects pronounced religious hostility and embodies a systemic effort to erase the cultural and religious presence of the Hindu community in Pakistan. Given that this incident involved multiple indicators of religiously motivated targeting, including abduction based on the victim's faith, a coerced religious declaration, forced conversion, and an attempted forced marriage aimed at severing her religious identity, it has been unequivocally classified as a religiously motivated hate crime and added to the Hinduphobia Tracker's hate crime database. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the victim’s ordeal began rather than when it is reported by the media. It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case has specified the exact date when the victim’s ordeal began. Therefore, 7 May 2026, the date when this incident was reported by the Hindu organisation “Rescue Sindhi Hindus”, has been selected as the indicative incident date. This is recorded for documentation purposes only.