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A protest against forced conversions in Lahore, March 2019 | WhiteStar
The 13-year-old Christian girl Arzoo Raja’s case sheds a stark light on the issues of forced conversions and child marriages in Pakistan. It became one of the biggest stories of 2020, exposing gaps in the system that allow for these ugly practices to continue in our society.
Arzoo’s was just the latest name in the list of young Christian and Hindu girls who have faced such an ordeal. In fact, even while every development in the Arzoo case was receiving media attention, another forced conversion case was also being heard by the Sindh High Court, without similar extensive reporting. This was the case of Neha Pervaiz, who was abducted from Karachi’s Ittehad Town on April 28, 2019.