Pakistan court says the forced conversion of two kidnapped girls is legal

By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A Christian father in Pakistan is trying without success to gain custody through the courts of his two pre-teen daughters who were kidnapped and made to convert to Islam - writes Anto Akkara in a story for Ecumenical News International He stated that On July 12 2008, a judge in Pakistan's Punjab province ignored pleas that Saba Younis, aged 12, and her 10 year old sister, Anila Younis, who went missing on June 26 from the small town of Chowk Munda, had been kidnapped while on their way to their uncle's residence and ruled that their conversion to Islam was legal. “The kidnappers, who had married the girls, had also filed for custody of the girls at a local police station on June 28, asserting that the sisters had converted to Islam and their father no longer had... [read full story]