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Forced conversion: Dalits hold rally in Karachi
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Forced conversion: Dalits hold rally in Karachi

| @indiablooms | 01 Apr 2023, 09:13 am

Karachi: An alliance of Dalit community people took out a rally from the Karachi Press Club to the Sindh Assembly building in the Pakistani city on Thursday to protest against alleged forced conversion in the nation.

They also demonstrated against the suspension of the Thar Express.

Hundreds of people, including women and children, from different segments of the scheduled caste Hindus like Kolhi, Bheel, Meghwar, Oad and Bagri, participating in the rally under a banner of the Pakistan Darawer Ittehad’ also staged a sit-in outside the provincial legislature, reports Dawn News.

The protesters were seen carrying placards that read slogans like ‘Why minority girls are seen as sex slaves by radicals’, ‘No one stands for minority communities’ and ‘We want protection’.

Shiva Kutchi, Narain Das Jaipal, Sardar Khemchand Bheel, Nirmal Kumar Meghwar, Parkho Mal Bheel, Dr Amreshi Kutchi, Mansangh Thakur, Narain Das Lakhani, Molchand Parmar, Bhimar Lal Karnani and others, leading the rally, said that forced conversion was a ‘serious issue’ in Sindh but for the last eight years, a draft law to this effect had been pending legislation before the Sindh Assembly, the newspaper reported.

The leaders accused the government and political parties of taking no serious steps to address the issue of “forced” conversion of underage Hindu girls seriously.

They warned that if their demands pertaining to the kidnapping-cum-conversion of Hindu girls and others were not met, they would be compelled to stage a sit-in outside Chief Minister House and Bilawal House.

The protesters also distributed a 15-point charter of demands at the rally. It claimed that Hindu girls were being kidnapped and forcibly converted and married against which a law must be enacted, reported Dawn News.

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