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Pakistan: Hindu girl missing for 27 days, minority lawmakers stage dramatic protest in assembly
A Pakistani politician has protested against the failure to trace a Hindu girl who has been missing from Sibi town for the past 27 days, demanding urgent action for her recovery.
Bindia Kumari was allegedly abducted from Sibi, prompting protests by minority lawmakers Dr Ashok Kumar of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Sanjay Kumar of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the Balochistan Assembly.
The two lawmakers had earlier raised the issue of Kumari's alleged abduction and subsequent transfer to Sindh during an Assembly session, Dawn reported.
They also informed the court that the girl had allegedly been converted to Islam and subsequently married.
Raising the matter again during the Assembly session, the lawmakers expressed serious concern over her continued disappearance and demanded immediate steps to ensure her recovery.
As part of their protest, both minority lawmakers sat on the floor in front of the Speaker's dais and raised slogans.
Following intervention by other lawmakers, they called off their demonstration and returned to their seats.
Senior Provincial Minister Zahoor Buledi assured the Assembly that, since the matter involved another province, the Balochistan government would take it up with the Chief Minister, the Pakistani newspaper reported.
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