A minor Christian girl abducted and forcibly married in Pakistan

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Bahawalpur: May 14, 2013. (PCP) Rozi Munir daughter of Munir Shad of the resident of Aziz Abad Colony, Near AC Bus Terminal Bahawalpur was abducted on May, 3, 2013. Nabeel son of Samson Masih of the resident of Chak No.26 M, Tehsil and District Lodhran, Mumtaz Bibi, Rashid, and Rizwan abducted the minor Rozi Munir. According to the official record her date of birth is September 22, 1998 and she is the student of grade 9 and passed her grade 8 examination in March 2013.FIR No. 224/2013, under Section 365/B of the Pakistan Penal Code has been logged at Police Station, Police lines Bahawalpur. The accused got a fake marriage certificate of Nabeel and Rozi Munir. The real name of the bride is Rozi Munir but Rozi on the marriage certificate. According to her birth certificate she is about 14 years but shown 18 years in the marriage certificate. A Muslim cleric Qari Abid Hussain son of Haji Ghulam Hussain resident of Pesh Imam Masjid, Canal Division Bahawalpur recited the marriage in which Nabeel has been shown embracing Islam as Muhammad Nabeel. Both of the witnesses Salmoon son of Siddique Masih and Samson son of Chaudhry Siddique Masih, residents of Chak No.26 M, Tehsil and District Lodhran are Christians. Marriage ceremony was taken and registered on May 4, 2013. Rozi Munir was presented before Mr. Amir Javed, the area magistrate Bahawalpur on May 13, 2013 who took the case as a sensitive one due to the religious element and postponed the hearing. A renowned human rights activist Mr. Lazar Allah Rakha Advocate who also serves as legal advisor of SHADOW Organization said that he is taking this case seriously because sometimes Christians only convert to Islam just for the love affairs. Professor Anjum James Paul, Director SHADOW Organization expressed his views and demanded the police to arrest all the culprits including the abductors, Qari Abid Hussain and the witnesses of the marriage . He also said that the government should take such matters seriously and to order the police to register cases and award severe punishment against such criminal who are involved in the minor marriages.

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