"Can you accept your daughters being forcibly married to Hindu men?" said Raj Kumar, whose niece Rinkle Kumari was allegedly forced to convert and marry a Muslim man in 2012. Rinkle's case made headlines and was even taken up by the Supreme Court.
Speaking at a seminar at the Karachi Press Club yesterday on the theme "Hindus in Pakistan - issues and solutions", Kumar called six-year-old Jumna on to the stage and said she and her 10-year-old sister Pooja would have been forced to change their religion if the media had not raised their case.
Jumna's mother Marju and father Soma, residents of Mirpurkhas city in Sindh province, were present at the event.
"We are poor people. My little girls helped supplement our income by selling clay toys and utensils door to door. On February 4, they left home as usual with their basket of toys but didn't return. We raised an alarm," Soma said.
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Soma said the court sent the girls to a Darul Aman or womens' home following suspicions they may have been subjected to child abuse at home.
"Little Jumna has been given back to us now but Pooja is still at the Darul Aman. She seems to have been brainwashed into saying strange things about us. Her mind seems affected by the trauma," he said.
Former lawmaker Safdar Abbasi said it was a sad reality that not just Hindu temples but mosques, imambargahs or Shia prayer halls and churches were no longer safe in Pakistan.