HANIF KOT, Pakistan — The Christian mother of a 12-year-old girl in Punjab province who was kidnapped, coerced into converting to Islam and forcibly married to a 37-year-old Muslim hoped to recover her daughter at a court hearing June 11.
The reaction of Pakistani law enforcement authorities to Sajida Masih’s complaint — ridiculing her and asserting that there is nothing she can do because her daughter is now a Muslim — did not encourage her hopes of recovering her daughter, Huma, at the hearing.
Masih said Muhammad Imran abducted Huma at gunpoint Feb. 23 from Hanif Kot village in Gujranwala district, forcibly converted her and then married her. Imran, a father of three children, has since disappeared along with his first wife, children and new child-bride.
Karamat Ali Saroyya, a local landowner, called Masih and said Huma was in Muridke, but Masih and her lawyer were unable to find her there. Saroyya later demanded that Masih work on his fields for one year to get her daughter back.
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