Send us home: Abducted, converted, married, 2 minor Hindu sisters plead outside Pak court
Two Hindu sisters, reportedly aged 13 and 14, broke down outside a court in Pakistan's Sindh province after it declined to send them home with their parents, according to journalists and minority-rights activists. The family alleged that Sita and Rupi, members of the Kachhi Kolhi community, were abducted, converted to Islam and married to Amjad Solangi and Mansoor Solangi, reported Sindh Renaissance, a US-based Sindhi-rights group. The court in Sindh's Tando Allahyar district ordered that the sisters be moved to a safe house, even as they sobbed and pleaded, "We want to go home," revealed a video posted by Veengas, a Pakistani journalist and activist.A day later, Veengas reported that "another Hindu girl, 14-year-old Pansi Kohli", had been abducted from Tando Allahyar on September 9. She said, going by reports, "six Hindu minor girls" in the Sindh district had been abducted and converted to Islam within 10 days.
Apart from the treatment of minorities in Pakistan, the case has put the spotlight on Tando Allahyar, a district where several abductions and religious conversions involving Hindu minors have previously been reported.
Sindh, home to most of Pakistan's Hindu population, has emerged as the epicentre of complaints involving Hindu girls being abducted, converted and married to Muslim men. Poor families from the marginalised Kolhi, Bheel and Meghwar communities remain particularly vulnerable because of their limited access to police, courts, legal assistance, meaningful political representation, and their near-disenfranchisement in Pakistan.
Amnesty International says that "hundreds" of young Hindu women in Pakistan have faced abduction, forced conversion and forced marriage. The rights' organisation has also warned of persistent discrimination against Pakistani Hindus, including attacks on their temples and businesses and misuse of blasphemy allegations.
"Is this some kind of state-sponsored group working to target Hindu Sindhis who are not willing to leave their motherland? Because if this isn't an emergency, then what would an emergency look like? Save our girls!!" Pakistani social activist Sorath Sindhu posted on X. A video of the two girls sobbing and pleading to return to their parents went viral on social media. (Image: Social Media) HINDU MINOR GIRLS, ABDUCTED, CONVERTED MARRIED; SOB AFTER COURT HEARING
The sisters from Ibrahim Colony in Tando Allahyar were produced before the court in connection with a kidnapping case reported the previous week.
People present outside the court said the girls repeatedly asked to be returned to their family. Pakistani journalist Veengas described it as "heartbreaking to see the girls sobbing after the court refused to send them with their parents".
Pakistani social activist Sorath Sindhu said the girls had expressed their wishes clearly during the proceedings. "We want to go home," the activist quoted them as saying.
"No decision affecting them should be made without ensuring that they understand the process and can express their wishes freely... The court ordered that they be transferred to a safe house. We demand justice, protection from harm, and a fair, transparent, and child-sensitive process... The girls must be heard directly, provided with independent legal and psychosocial support," Sorath Sindhu wrote on X. "Their age, stated wishes, and best interests must remain central to every decision."
However, the court ordered that the sisters be transferred to a safe house for two days, according to the Sindh Renaissance. Their exact ages, circumstances of disappearance, conversions and purported marriages have not yet been independently established through publicly available police or court documents.PAKISTANI HINDU FAMILY ALLEGES ABDUCTION AND CONVERSION
Publicly circulated information identifies the girls as Roopi and Seeta, daughters of Raamji. The minority-rights campaigners claim that official documents establish their ages as 13 and 14.
If their stated ages are confirmed, both would be children under the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act, 2013, which sets 18 as the minimum marriage age for both sexes. The law makes arranging or facilitating a child marriage a cognisable, non-bailable and non-compoundable offence.
Pakistani activist Ayesha Gill described them as "CHILDREN. Not brides. Not converts," while the Voice of Pakistan Minority said their age, wishes and safety should have remained central to the proceedings.advertisementTANDO ALLAHYAR'S TROUBLING ANTI-HINDU RECORDThis is not the first such controversy concerning atrocities against Hindus to emerge from Sindh's Tando Allahyar. In July 2025, the families of Khenchi Kolhi, Lata Devi Meghwar and Meena Meghwar lodged separate FIRs at Sultanabad police station, alleging that the girls had been kidnapped and forcibly converted. The three later appeared before the Sindh High Court's Hyderabad Circuit Bench and said they had converted and married voluntarily, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
Veengas, back in July 2025, quoted Lata's mother, Roshini Meghwar, asking on X. "Do Hindu mothers give birth to their daughters for religious conversion? Would Muslims give their daughters to strangers — or to Hindus? Veengas quoted the mother as asking.
In 2023, a peace-monitoring report recorded the alleged abduction of 13-year-old Roshni Meghwar from Nasarpur in Tando Allahyar, while noting that the case had circulated mainly through minority-watchdog accounts and was not formally covered by mainstream media.
Pakistani minority-rights campaigners have demanded verification of the sisters' ages, independent legal and psychological assistance, and the recording of their statements in a child-sensitive setting free from influence.- EndsPublished By: Sushim MukulPublished On: Sep 11, 2026 08:00 IST
