LAHORE, Pakistan — A Christian woman — twice abducted by the same co-worker, raped, tortured and forced into a fake marriage — was able to escape and return to her family.
The Pakistani woman’s ordeal began Jan. 11 when co-worker Muhammad Asif Sadiq offered to take her to a place to enroll in a government assistance program, she told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News.
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Sadiq obtained her thumbprint on documents that were actually certificates for a fake marriage and fraudulent conversion to Islam. The woman was then held hostage for eight days in the home the man shared with his wife and children, said the kidnapped woman.
Under pressure from a council of elders, the man released the woman and vowed to nullify the “marriage,” said the kidnapped woman, a married mother of three children.
On Feb. 14, Sadiq and two accomplices abducted her again as she left work. He took her 62 miles from Pattoki Tehsil in Punjab province, where she lived, to Nankana Sahib District. She was held hostage three days, tortured and raped at gunpoint, the woman told the news outlets.
She escaped Feb. 17.
Sadiq is demanding that she be returned to him and the charges against him dropped, the woman’s husband told the news services.
Pakistan is No. 8 on Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List of places most difficult to be a Christian.
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