Minor Hindu girl abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to Muslim man in Pakistan

Case ID : b1c5ded | Location : Badin, Sindh, Pakistan | Date of Incident : Wed, 8 October, 2025

Case ID : b1c5ded

Badin, Sindh, Pakistan

8 October, 2025

Minor Hindu girl abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to Muslim man in Pakistan

Predatory Proselytisation

Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion

Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination

Conversion of minor

Case Summary

A 15-year-old deaf-mute Hindu girl from Badin, Sindh, Pakistan, was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to a Muslim man. According to reports, the accused Muslim man is a father of seven children, who was also involved in drug trafficking. The Hindu victim girl, a resident of the Korwah town, had been missing for nine days (9 October 2025), and her family filed a kidnapping complaint. Following this, on 18 October 2025, the girl appeared at a press conference along with her husband, presenting documents confirming her conversion to Islam. The victim's father stated that she was forced into the marriage. He also asserted that his daughter could never have voluntarily married a man with such a criminal background. Shiva Kachhi, head of the NGO Darawar Ittehad Pakistan, working for the rights of Hindus and minorities in Pakistan, criticised the police for not acting on the family’s complaint and stated that the case would be taken to court. Kachhi stated, "We have spoken to our lawyers to pursue the case as we don't believe the girl could have done this willingly." He also requested that senior police officials conduct an independent inquiry into the incident. This case highlights the persecution faced by the Hindu minorities in Pakistan, marked by systemic discrimination, violence, and forced conversions. Hindu women, particularly young girls, are often abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and married off to Muslim men with little to no legal recourse. Temples are frequently vandalised or destroyed, and Hindu communities are subjected to social and economic marginalisation. Blasphemy laws are disproportionately used against Hindus, leading to false accusations and severe punishments. 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.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category: Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the first sub-category 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. The second sub-category selected is: Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. Within this, the tertiary category selected is: Conversion of minor. Religious brainwashing essentially means the often subtle and forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up their religious beliefs to accept contrasting regimented ideas. Religious grooming or brainwashing also involves propaganda and manipulation. It involves the systematic effort, driven by religious malice and indoctrination, to persuade “non-believers’ to accept allegiance, command, or doctrine to and of a contrasting faith. Cases of such grooming or brainwashing are far more nuanced than direct threats, coercion, inducement and violence. In such cases, it is often seen that there is repeated, subtle and continual manipulation of the victim to induce disaffection towards their own faith and acceptance of the contrasting faith of the perpetrator. While subtle indoctrination is widely acknowledged as predatory, an element which is often understated in such conversions or the attempts of such conversion is the role of loyalty and trust which might develop between the perpetrator and the victim. Fiduciary relationships are often abused to affect such religious conversion. For example, an educator transmitting religious doctrine of a competing faith to a Hindu student. The Hindu student is likely to accept what the teacher is transmitting owing to existence of the fiduciary relationship. The exploitation of the fiduciary relationship to religiously indoctrinate victims would also be included in this category. Since the underlying animosity towards the victim’s faith forms the basis of predatory proselytization, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. In this case, a mute and deaf minor Hindu girl was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man in Pakistan. This starkly illustrates the exploitation of vulnerable Hindu minorities through coercion and force. Such incidents are not isolated cases; rather, they are part of a persistent and troubling pattern in Pakistan, where Hindu minorities, particularly young Hindu girls, are frequently targeted for kidnappings, forced religious conversions, and marriages to Muslim men. This ongoing trend showcases the systemic discrimination and violence faced by the Hindu community in Pakistan. The Hindu minority has been subjected to various forms of harassment, marginalisation, and abuse since the country’s inception. Another point to highlight is that the victim in this case is a minor. Hence, it negates any genuine element of consent or voluntary change of faith from the outset. Children, due to their ongoing emotional and cognitive development, are especially susceptible to manipulation and indoctrination, making them easy targets for those seeking to exploit religious or social vulnerabilities. When such acts are perpetrated against minors of a specific faith, in this case, Hindus, using abduction and coercion tactics, then they are clear instances of hate crimes and clear violations of both human rights and child protection norms. The act of forced conversion and subsequent marriage of the Hindu victim demonstrated the violation of her religious rights. It was a deliberate attempt to strip her of her Hindu faith and impose Islamic faith upon her. By targeting her religious beliefs, the Muslim perpetrator demonstrated clear animosity towards Hinduism and the Hindu community, making it a religiously motivated crime. As the motive behind the crime is rooted in religious animosity towards the Hindu victim due to her faith, it has been categorised as a hate crime and accordingly included in the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incidents based on the actual date of the crime rather than the date of media or social media reporting. In this case, reports stated that the girl had been missing for nine days prior to the press conference held by the girl and the accused on 18 October 2025. Therefore, an indicative date of 9 October 2025 has been recorded as the date of the incident.