Pakistani judges have ordered police to find and present to the court a kidnapped girl and her abductor.
And in another case, a suspect in the rape of a 14-year-old has been arrested. The girls in both cases are from Christian families, Christian Daily International-Morning Star News reported.
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Deadline
On Jan. 9 a two-judge constitutional court gave police a Jan. 16 deadline to present the 30-year-old Muslim abductor and 13-year-old girl, Supreme Court attorney Rana Abdul Hameed said.
The girl was kidnapped July 29, then forced to convert to Islam and marry the captor. Hameed told Christian Daily-Morning Star two courts rejected the family’s previous petitions to recover her.
In the other case, a 14-year-old from Sahiwal in Pakistan’s Punjab Province was accosted at gunpoint Dec. 7, taken to a house and raped. Her brother said her family found her semi-conscious outside the home, and police took her to a hospital where rape was confirmed.
Three individuals were arrested, but two were released, the girl’s brother told Christian Daily-Morning Star.
Her brother believes she was attacked because of a previous dispute he had with one of the three arrested.
World Watch
Pakistan is No. 8 on Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List of the 50 places most difficult to be a Christian.
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