Punjab🇵🇰 | June 9, 2025: In a heartbreaking and deeply disturbing case, two minor daughters of a poor Christian man, Aslam Masih, were kidnapped from school by local Muslims gruop in Punjab. While one of the girls was released after Aslam managed to pay a ransom, the other daughter, Safiya, remains in captivity.
Aslam, a daily-wage laborer with no political or financial power, has made desperate public appeals for help. With tears in his eyes and pain in his voice, he pleads, “I have no money, no power… just a father’s cry.”
Despite the urgency of the situation, local authorities have done little to investigate or act, echoing a familiar and tragic pattern experienced by minority communities across Pakistan.
A Pattern of Targeted Violence
This is not an isolated incident. Christian and Hindu girls in Pakistan are being systematically targeted — abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and married off without consent. In many cases, families are threatened into silence, and police often refuse to register even the most basic complaints.
These crimes are not random — they are part of a larger system of religious persecution, where minority girls are hunted, exploited, and erased from their communities under the cover of forced religious conversion and gendered violence.
A Cry for Justice Ignored
Despite Pakistan’s legal framework that claims to protect the rights of children and religious minorities, implementation remains weak and biased. Families like Aslam Masih’s are left abandoned by a system that often sides with the perpetrators due to religious and societal bias.
In Safiya’s case, there has been no effective police action, no FIR filed, and no support offered to the grieving father. This silence and inaction further embolden the perpetrators and reinforce the climate of impunity.
Islamofascism and the Weaponization of Faith
What we are witnessing is not just criminal behavior — it is a form of ideologically-driven Islamofascism. Religious supremacy is being used as a weapon to erase the identities of Pakistan’s most vulnerable: minority girls.
Through abductions, forced conversions, sexual violence, and psychological trauma, these young victims are not only stolen from their families but are stripped of their names, faith, and futures.
The World Must Speak Up
The continued targeting of Christian, Hindu, and other non-Muslim girls in Pakistan is a gross violation of international human rights. It reflects a dangerous environment where religion is used to justify oppression, and where the most powerless — young girls from poor minority families — suffer the most.
Call to Action
We urge human rights organizations, religious leaders, international media, and governments to:
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Demand the immediate release and safe return of Safiya.
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Hold Pakistan accountable for protecting its minority citizens.
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Pressure authorities to enforce laws against child abduction and forced conversion.
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Support grassroots organizations working to protect vulnerable girls.
No father should have to buy back his child from kidnappers. No girl should be forced to choose between her faith and her life. No society should tolerate this.
Until justice is served and change is enforced, Safiya’s story — and that of countless other girls — will remain a haunting symbol of a nation failing its own children.
#JusticeForSafiya #StopForcedConversions #MinorityRights #PakistanPersecution #HumanRights #SaveOurGirls
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