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Family of girl, 12, forced to marry abductor condemn Pakistan authorities
Criticism follows release of 29-year-old who kept girl chained in cattle pen, in latest case highlighting abuses of religious minorities
The family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after allegedly being kidnapped and forced to marry her abductor, have attacked…
- Haroon Janjua
- The Guardian
The case is among those now being examined by a government inquiry into the forced conversions of religious minority women and girls, after police released the man, saying…
The child was taken from her home in Faisalabad last June and had been held at the…