AMRITSAR: Pakistan Hindu Seva Welfare Trust ( PHSWT ) organized a protest against the recent forced conversions of minor Hindu girls in front of the high court in Hyderabad city of Sindh, where lawyers from Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad and Karachi participated, in a bid to highlight the alleged injustice with minorities in the province.

Talking to TOI over phone from Karachi, PHSWT president Sanjesh Dhajna said that the event was organized to mark the 66th World Human Rights Day on Wednesday, in collaboration with Global Human Rights Defence and Coalition for Rights of Minorities.

He said that injustice towards minorities was increasing day-by-day, due to which they were feeling insecure. "Minorities from vulnerable communities, including Hindus and Sikhs, are ignored and subjected to persecution," he said.

"Mohan Bheel, whose daughter Kajal Bheel was recently forcibly converted to Islam from Udero Lal, asked the law enforcing agencies for justice. There were also family members of Marvi Kolhi, 13, and Bhadal Kolhi, 14, who were recently abducted and forcibly converted to Islam. As per our monitoring team, we have 12 cases of recent forced conversions of minor Hindu girls in the last 52 days. Hindus in Sindh are not given justice by government and judiciary," Dhajna said.

Advocate Haman Das Kolhi, legal adviser, Pakistan Hindu Seva, said he had worked on many cases of Hindus, in which they were often discriminated by police. "Police don't register FIRs by Hindus, which is a human rights violation," he said. There were also numerous cases of bonded labour in which landlords had kept many farmers and their families as their servants.

Advocate Shahnawaz Janjhi, a youth activist and coordinator of Pakistan Hindu Seva, said injustice with minorities was increasing and that they were being denied better education and employment.

