The accused, wanted to marry Pooja Kumari after converting her to Islam, the Daily Pakistan reported. On the day of the incident, Lashari broke into Kumari’s house in Ghotki city of Sukkur district in an attempt to abduct her.
A man, Wahid Bux Lashari, accused of murdering an18-year-old Hindu girl in Pakistan’s Sindh province wanted to marry her after converting her to Islam, a media report said.
The accused, wanted to marry Pooja Kumari after converting her to Islam, the Daily Pakistan reported.
On the day of the incident, Lashari broke into Kumari’s house in Ghotki city of Sukkur district in an attempt to abduct her.
However, he lost his temper when she resisted and opened fire on her, killing the girl on spot, the report said.
Police said the prime suspect had been arrested and he had confessed to his crime.
Meanwhile, relatives of Pooja Kumari have staged a protest and demanded stern action against the accused, the Daily Pakistan reported.
Every year, several women from minority communities, especially Hindus in Sindh, are abducted and forcibly converted by religious extremists, it said. Pakistan’s minority communities have long faced the issue of forced marriages and conversions, the report said.
According to the Peoples Commission for Minorities’ Rights and the Centre for Social Justice, 156 incidents of forced conversions took place between 2013 and 2019.
In 2019, the Sindh government attempted to outlaw forced conversions and marriages for the second time, but iit was contested by certain religious protestors the report said.
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reports the overall population of the Hindu community in Pakistan at 1.60 per cent, and 6.51 per cent in Sindh respectively.
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