In a significant legal victory against forced conversions and marriages in Pakistan, a civil court has annulled the marriage of a Christian woman who was given to a Muslim man as a child and coerced to convert to Islam and marry him, sources said.
A civil court in Pakistan’s Punjab province has annulled the forced marriage of a Christian girl who had been subjected to years of abuse and coercion, allowing her to reunite with her family after enduring forced conversion and marriage to her stepfather’s brother.
A Muslim man in Pakistan who twice abducted a Christian mother has since raped her, fraudulently converted her to Islam and fabricated an Islamic marriage, sources said.
The share of young adults who say they have not had sex in the last year has skyrocketed in the past decade, while the virginity rate for young adult males has more than doubled, according to a recent data analysis.
A 35-year-old Muslim man abducted the 12-year-old daughter of his Christian neighbor and took her to another province, where he forcibly converted her to Islam and married her.