The abduction of four Hindu women and girls in Pakistan, including three minors, has once again put the safety of Hindu women in the country under scrutiny and drawn attention to the vulnerability of Pakistan’s Hindu minority, particularly women and girls in Sindh, where rights groups have documented repeated allegations of abduction, forced conversion and forced marriage. The latest cases from Sindh again involve allegations of abduction, forced conversion and marriage, with one minor reportedly still missing.
According to a complaint filed by her brother, 21-year-old Shirimati Reeta from Khipro in Sanghar district disappeared from her home during the night of August 23–24. Her family alleged that unidentified people took her from the house, along with mobile phones and valuables. Sanghar police registered a case, and the family subsequently alleged that Reeta had been taken to Gujranwala in Punjab.
The family alleged that Reeta was pressured to convert to Islam and marry a Muslim man identified as Nazeer Hussain. Punjab police later located her and produced her before a magistrate. Police sought to place her in a government shelter, but Reeta told the court that she wanted to return to her family. The magistrate recorded her statement and allowed her to leave with her brother.
In another case reported in early September, the family of two Hindu sisters from Tando Allahyar, identified in reports as Sita and Rupi, aged 13 and 14, alleged that the girls had been abducted, converted to Islam and married to two Muslim men identified as Amjad Solangi and Mansoor Solangi. Authorities later produced the sisters before a court in Tando Allahyar, but instead of returning the girls immediately to their parents, the court ordered authorities to take them to a safe house. Video footage circulated after the hearing showed the girls apparently pleading to be allowed to return home. Minority-rights activists called for independent verification of their ages and for the girls to receive independent legal assistance. The latest available reports indicate that authorities have kept them in protective custody rather than returning them to their family.
Shortly after the incident involving Sita and Rupi, a third case emerged from Tando Allahyar. This time, unknown assailants abducted 14-year-old Pansi Kolhi from Ashfaq Town on the night of September 9. Her family lodged an FIR at the Women Police Station in Tando Allahyar and appealed to authorities to locate her and ensure her safety, but no official police statement or report has provided verified information about Pansi’s whereabouts. The Hindu teenager remains missing.
While Hindu community representatives have reported the abduction of three minor girls from Tando Allahyar, they also made a much larger claim that at least six Hindu girls were abducted in the area within roughly 10 days. However, that figure remains unverified. A deep dive into the established statistics explains why such allegations generate alarm among religious minorities in Pakistan. Data from Pakistan’s Center for Social Justice, which UNICEF and international rights organizations have cited, recorded 83 cases involving the abduction of minority women and girls in 2024, including 52 Hindus, while Sindh accounted for the majority of documented cases involving forced conversion to Islam and child marriage. The Center later recorded 94 cases in 2025, of which 71 involved Hindu women and girls, indicating that the problem has not shown any improvement. Human rights organizations also caution that official figures may undercount cases because families may fear retaliation or lack access to effective legal remedies.
But the abduction, forced religious conversion, and marriage of Hindu girls to Muslim men are not the only dangers facing Hindus in Pakistan, as recent reports have raised concerns about possible institutional targeting of members of Sindh’s Hindu community. The family of Hindu trader Gobindram and his grandson Besham, from Tando Adam in Sanghar district, alleged that police personnel took the two men from their business premises on September 2. The family said it had not received satisfactory information about their whereabouts, and appealed to senior police officials and human rights organizations for help.
The circumstances surrounding Gobindram and Besham remain unclear, and the available reporting does not establish why police took them, or whether they remain in custody. This disappearance, coming amid reports of Hindu girls going missing, adds another layer to concerns among the community about security, police accountability and access to due process.
For now, the four reported cases, the unverified claim involving six girls and the alleged disappearance of the Hindu trader and his grandson remain separate incidents. What connects them, however, is the continuing concern among Sindh’s Hindu minority that women, girls and families remain vulnerable to abduction, coercion and, in some cases, unexplained disappearances.
rick says
Muslims can’t even get Muslim girls to marry them so they have to go and abduct Hindu girls and make them convert to Islam. I wonder did they rape them before or after they converted? And does it make any difference which came first, the rape or the conversion as both are horrible. This is the face of Islam that America does not see and hopefully will never see. But any positive feeling for the Muslim “faith” is just being taken for a ride. This is an abhorrent so called religion that hates all of the non Muslim world and one half of their own- the female half.