Islam every year. In 2003 a six-year-old Sikh girl was kidnapped by a member of the Afridi tribe in Northwest Frontier Province; he also claimed the girl had converted to Islam and therefore could not be returned to her family. Since the turn of the century non-Sunni minorities as the Kalash and Ismailis have been threatened with conversion to Islam or death by the Taliban and other radical Islamic groups. Well known Pakistani sportsperson-politician Imran Khan (now the Prime minister) had condemned the forced conversions threat as un-Islamic. On October 12, 2012, Ryan Stanton, a Christian boy of 16, went into hiding after being accused of blasphemy and after his home was ransacked by a crowd. Stanton stated that he had been framed because he had rebuffed pressures to convert to Islam. In February 2012, Rinkle, Lata, and Asha Kumari were allegedly forced to convert from Hinduism to Islam. Their cases were appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The appeal was admitted but remained unheard as of December 2016. In 2020, a 15-year-old Hindu girl was kidnapped, forcibly converted and married to a Muslim man. She was later rescued by the police. The Court ordered her to be sent to a Women's protection centre. In a separate case the police aided in a bride's abduction. In October 2020, the Pakistani High Court upheld the validity of a forced marriage between 44-year-old Ali Azhar and 13-year-old Christian Arzoo Raja. Azhar abducted Raja and then forced her to marry him and convert to Islam. However, on November 9 the High Court in Sindh ruled that Arzoo was a minor and that her marriage to Azhar violated the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act. Arzoo returned to the women's shelter after she refused to reunite with her family. See also 2020 Karak temple attack Acid throwing Blasphemy law in Pakistan Child labour in Pakistan Domestic violence in Pakistan Dowry death Forced disappearance in Pakistan Feudalism in Pakistan Honour killing in Pakistan Human rights in Islamic countries Human Rights in Pakistan under General Zia-ul-Haq Human trafficking in Pakistan LGBT rights in Pakistan Persecution of Ahmadis#Pakistan Rape in Pakistan Sectarian violence in Pakistan Violence against women in Pakistan Women related laws in Pakistan Organisations Ministry of Human Rights Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict Asian Human Rights Development Organization References External links – (Government of Pakistan) Official