LAHORE, Pakistan — Christian human rights lawyers in Pakistan saw a partial legal victory in a judge’s ruling in early September that one of two kidnapped girls be returned to her Christian parents.
The judge further ruled her sister be free to choose whether to go with the Muslim man who allegedly forced her to convert and marry him. Justice Malik Saeed Ejaz ruled Sept. 9 that 10-year-old Aneela Masih be returned to her parents — an unprecedented legal victory for Christian parents of a girl who supposedly converted to Islam, according to one lawyer — while leaving her sister, 13-year-old Saba Masih, free to choose whether to go with Amjad Ali, a Muslim man who married her after the June 26 kidnapping.
Saba Masih, whose birth certificate indicates she is now 13 but testified she is 17, said she did not want to return to her parents. Their Muslim captors have repeatedly told the two girls their parents would harm them if they returned. The older sister is unwilling to meet with any of the family members or her parents.
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