Pakistani Muslims invited a Christian girl who later fled and forced her to convert.
Salman Masi said that Arsaran Ali had once again invited his 15-year-old daughter, Maskan Salman.
Maskan escaped from Ali on December 15th and was forced to marry a false marriage.
Masi, a Catholic, said that Maskan was at home with her 10-year-old cousin, but all other members of the family went to the funeral when Ali and an unidentified accomplice broke and took her away at the muzzle.
“When we returned home, we saw my nie crying in the courtyard while Muskan was missing,” Masi told Star News for Christian Daily International Morning. “The child said that she and Muscan were playing when two men broke into the house and took Muscan with them.”
Masi immediately notified the police and said he tried to register an aiding case against Ali, but officers refused to register his complaints.
“It’s been more than 10 days since Muscan was taken, and the police have not done anything,” he said. “Ali is also missing. There is no information about their location.”
The family was trying to find Muscan without consequences, he added.
“I made a serious mistake by taking Muscan to my hometown without consulting our lawyer,” Masi said. “We attended the funeral carefully, sympathised with the family and thought the next day Ali would return to Karachi without any information about our existence. But I was wrong.”
Ali was threatening his family and, according to Massys, he was demanding that Muscan be returned to him as his “legally married wife.”
“We are very concerned about our daughter’s safety and our indifference to the police’s light letter exacerbates our fear that we may not be able to see her again,” he said.
Muscan was first accused of from his home on March 11, 2024. The Masi family submitted the first information report accusing the temptation, but Maskan declared that she was 19 years old and that she had converted to Islam and married an Ali of her own free will. In Sindh, the legal age of marriage for both genders is 18 years old.
Estimated to be between 25 and 27, Ali forced Muskans to convert to Islam and forged his marriage certificate as a legal cover for crimes, Masi said. She ran away on December 15th and reunited with her family. Luke Victor, a Christian lawyer in Karachi, helped his family escape from his hometown to Karachi. There, Muscan was kept in a safe house to protect her from her so-called husband.
In her written statement on December 16th, Victor said that Maskan had clearly denied that she had converted to Islam and that she was willing to marry Ali. The court had allowed Badin police to stay with her parents until they investigated the new lawsuit, he said, to see if Badin police would determine her age and guarantee legal action under the Sindh Child Marriage Confinement Act of 2014.
“It’s a shame that the Masi family took Maskan to Tando Gram Ali without informing us,” he said. “We put in legal and other efforts to save the girl, but now we’re back from where we started.”
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