{"id":10898,"date":"2012-03-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/03\/20\/minorities-in-karachi-rally-behind-hindus-on-supposed-abduction\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T12:00:00","slug":"minorities-in-karachi-rally-behind-hindus-on-supposed-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/03\/20\/minorities-in-karachi-rally-behind-hindus-on-supposed-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Minorities In Karachi Rally Behind Hindus On Supposed Abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/article2964434.ece?css=print\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KARACHI, PAKISTAN, March 6, 2012 (thehindu.com): Sikhs and Christians of Karachi have come out in support of the Hindu community over the kidnapping and forced conversion to Islam of a 17-year-old girl from the Ghotki district of Sindh. On Sunday, members of various minority communities joined hands to stage a protest outside the Karachi Press Club demanding justice.<\/p>\n<p>Rinkle Kumari is said to have been kidnapped from her home in Mirpur Mathelo in Ghotki district on the night of February 24. The girl&#8217;s family claims that she was forcibly converted, re-named &#8216;Faryal&#8217; and married to Naveed Shah, a politician and members of the Muslim National Assembly. The other side claims Rinkle left home on her own to marry Naveed. <\/p>\n<p>President Asif Ali Zardari had stepped in early in the case to call for a transparent and speedy investigation. Taking serious note of reports of the kidnapping, the President had called for a report from the provincial government on February 26.<\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: Though we cannot yet know the details from this case, it is worth noticing the volatile religious situation in Pakistan, where the situation of Hindus has been steadily deteriorating.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KARACHI, PAKISTAN, March 6, 2012 (thehindu.com): Sikhs and Christians of Karachi have come out in support of the Hindu,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}