LAHORE, Pakistan — A powerful Pakistani politician’s aid who abducted a Christian girl from her home in Karachi has warned her parents that the same fate awaits their other daughters unless they drop charges against him and leave the city, the family said.
Khursheed Bibi told Morning Star News that Ghaji Khan, a close aide of Sindh Provincial Minister for Local Government Agha Siraj Durrani, had abducted 15-year-old Asma Masih from their house Dec. 10 and forced her to marry him and convert to Islam. Authorities have refused to take Khan into custody in spite of court orders to arrest him, according to the family.
“We told the police that Ghaji is threatening us, telling us to withdraw the case or else he would abduct my other daughters, but our pleas have fallen on deaf ears,” Bibi said. “We have lost our daughter, but now it seems we also have to relocate to another city to protect my other daughters.”
The girl’s mother, brother and father Rehmat Masih saw her in the company of Khan’s underlings Jan. 28 — and heard her plead for them to rescue her, her mother said — after a family member informed them that Khan and Asma had been seen at the Sindh High Court. The family members rushed to the high court from a hearing at the judicial magistrate’s court, Bibi said.
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