A Christian girl rescued from a Pakistani Muslim, says she had accused her of being forced to convert her, sexually assaulted her as part of a fake Islamic marriage, and forced her to prostitution.
Forced prostitution has led to serious health issues for a 16-year-old girl, whose name has been withheld as a victim of rape.
She said she was taken from her home in Manangara area of Nankana Sahib district, Punjab by Muhammad Asim, a 28-year-old Muslim who married on May 19th.
“I took the Class X entrance exam and went to the academy for the academy and English courses when ASIM targeted me,” she told Christian Daily International Morning Star News. “He worked as a chef at a nearby fast food outlet and began to monitor my movements. He first tried to manipulate me by offering gifts, but when I refused, he began harassing me.”
Over time, his actions escalated to harassment, she said, and he began to intercept her on the streets, making unwelcome progress. The Christian teenager reported his stalker to his father, causing Mason Shazad Masi to poverty, but he encouraged him to quietly and try to avoid ASIM, mainly due to fear of potential backlash in his Muslim neighborhoods and concerns about “honor.”
She changed her route to the academy and often walked with friends for safety, but Asim continued to harass her. On the morning of May 19th, she said she was on her way to the academy when Asim drove her away.
“He was forced to put my thumb impression on some blank paper. He was making it my false turn to Islam and my marriage to him,” she said. “Then he took me home, but his Muslim wife refused to accept his ‘remarriage’ and left his parents’ house with her two children. The next day, Asim repeatedly raped me, exposing me to immeasurable physical and psychological abuse. ”
Both Asim and his mother made her believe that her family would never accept her, and she said she had no choice but to do whatever they wanted.
“They also started to force drugs into my mind, which made my mind numb, gradually becoming depressed and losing the ability to think,” she said.
In an attempt to benefit from her suffering, Asim took her to various parts of the district and put her to sleep with other Muslim men, she said.
“Asim tortures me by tying me to the bed or the door, then beats me with slaps and plastic pipes when I refuse to do sex work,” she said. “I was literally locked up in hell. Every day I pleaded to God to give me death because I could no longer bear this pain.”
Her parents tried their best to find their missing daughter, but were hampered by institutional bias, said Catherine Sapna, Christian True Spirit (CTS).
“When the girl went missing, her father, Shazad Masi, approached the police for help, but they refused to submit Aidation’s first information report (FIR), telling him that it was a case of a ‘love marriage’,” Sapna told Christian Daily International Morning Star News. “This is a frequent excuse used to avoid behaviour in cases of coercion, and reflects systemic discrimination against religious minorities.”
When Masi and his 23-year-old son, who work in Islamabad, realized that she had been taken to Asim, they began contacting local Muslim elders for support. In retaliation, Asim has filed harassment cases against the two Christians and began employing various tactics to intimidate them, Sapna said.
After an unsuccessful effort to recover her, the Masih family contacted CTS. CTS filed a Habeas Corpus petition for recovery in Shahkot’s Additional Sessions Judge Imran Javed Gill’s Additional Sessions Court on August 13th.
“She was taken to hospital for treatment, but still, she was humiliated by the staff for saying that she was forced to become a Muslim and into sexual slavery,” Sapna said.
When the victim appeared in court on August 15, the judge saw her poor health ordered her family to be temporarily released for medical care, Sapna said.
“Multiple months of sexual exploitation by Asim and other men have caused severe infections in her body, allowing her to barely walk due to weakness and malnutrition,” she said. “Our priority is to ensure a recovery in both her physical and psychological health and launch a criminal case against the perpetrator.”
Such abuse is an example of a predatory tendency to target vulnerable Christian girls in their social immunity for crimes against minorities.
“We urge the government to criminalize forced conversions and also to pass a law that raises the legal age for girls to marry to 18,” Sapna said. “Also, police should be promptly taking action when it is related to acquiring minority girls of minority. These atrocities committed against young girls under the cover of religion should not be allowed to continue.”
Pakistan ranked 8th on the 2025 World Watchlist, where it’s the hardest place to become a Christian.
