Hindu girl tortured and hung upside down in Ghotki, Pakistan, to force her to recite Kalma on camera and convert to Islam
Ghotki, Sindh, Pakistan 
3 November, 2026
Case Summary
In Ghotki, Sindh, Pakistan, a Hindu girl was forced to recite the Kalma before the camera and was tortured until she capitulated and converted to Islam. This happened under the supervision of Mian Abdul Haq Mian Mithu, popularly known as Mian Mithu, an Islamic cleric known as a conversion kingpin, accused of converting more than 10,000 Hindu girls in Pakistan. The incident came to light after a video was shared on social media by “Rescue Sindhi Hindus,” a Hindu organisation advocating for the rights and protection of Pakistani Hindu minorities. In that video, the victim was seen with Mian Mithu, who was forcing her to recite the Kalma (Islamic declaration of faith). According to the organisation, the Hindu girl was abducted and kept locked in a dark room without food. She was hung upside down and tortured until she did not succumb to the pressure of conversion. Mian Mithu is an Islamic cleric, known to be one of the most dreaded persons in the lives of Hindus and Christians in Pakistan. He achieved notoriety in 2012 when he forcibly converted a Hindu girl named Rinki Kumari in February 2012. Rinki Kumari was abducted, raped and converted by a Muslim man. In 2019, Mithu came to notice for leading a rioting mob in the Ghotki district in Sindh. The riot was engineered over allegations of blasphemy against a Hindu school principal. Hindu temples, the principal’s house and several houses of Hindus were set on fire by the mob egged on by Mithu. His popularity had grown so widespread that several mainstream political parties, including Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, wooed him. Notably, Mian Abdul Haq Mithu was sanctioned by the UK over allegations of forced conversions. In a 2023 report by Just Earth News (JEN), the publication revealed that he is so notorious for helping predatory men against innocent Hindu girls that he has been labelled a “conversion factory”. Hinduphobia has documented 5 such incidents where Mian Mithu has been instrumental in converting poor and vulnerable Hindu girls in Pakistan. This incident is yet another example of 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. Under 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 had been categorised as a hate crime, as the abduction and forced conversion of a Hindu girl in Pakistan, followed by her intended marriage to an elderly Muslim man, clearly illustrated the exploitation of vulnerable Hindu minorities through coercion 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 was abducted specifically because of her Hindu identity, reflecting a recurring pattern in which minority girls in Pakistan were targeted on the basis of their faith. After her abduction, she was taken to meet Mian Mithu, an Islamic peer known for involvement in cases of forced conversions of minority girls. She was subjected to threats and coercion and was forced to recite the Kalma, following which she was converted to Islam. 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 could not 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 met multiple parameters of a religiously motivated crime, including abduction based on religious identity, forced religious declaration under coercion, and conversion under duress, this case has been unequivocally classified as a religiously motivated hate crime. Accordingly, it has been added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when the media reported it. 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, November 4 2026, the date the Hindu organisation “Rescue Sindhi Hindus” reported the incident, has been selected as the indicative incident date. This is recorded for documentation purposes only.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 1
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 1
Case Status
Unknown
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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