LAHORE, Pakistan — Two Christian sisters whose supervisors tried to pressure them to convert to Islam and marry them were found slain Jan. 4.
Sajida Mushtaq, 28-year-old wife and mother of four, and her sister, Abida Qaiser, also a mother, disappeared Nov. 26, 2020. Their decomposed bodies were found in sacks in a drainage ditch.
Muhammad Mumtaz and Naeem Butt, the sisters’ supervisors at a pharmaceutical factory, were taken into custody and confessed.
One stated that the men held the sisters hostage a few days “for satisfying … lust,” then slit their throats and discarded their bodies.
During the previous two years, Sajida had complained to her husband about the supervisors’ harassment. She also had told a relative that the supervisors were pressuring her and her sister to convert to Islam and marry them.
On Nov. 28, 2018, the U.S. added Pakistan to a blacklist of countries that violate religious freedom.
Pakistan is No. 5 on Open Doors’ 2021 World Watch List of places where Christians suffer the most persecution.
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