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MIRPURKHAS: The third judicial magistrate of Mirpurkhas on Thursday sent a Muslim woman, Ms Natasha, to ‘Safe House’ in Satellite Town and remanded her purported husband, Anil Kumar, in police custody for a day after she was picked up by police in a raid on their apartment in Zubaida Heights, located on Mirpurkhas-Hyderabad road on Wednesday.
The couple was produced in the court to record their statements. Ms Natasha stated that she was Anil’s wife and had been living with him for some years. She further stated that Anil had promised to her that he would embrace Islam soon.
Anil was arrested in Hameedpura locality of the city.
The couple is to be produced in court again today (Friday).
Police had detained three other persons, Dinesh, Bharat and Haresh, during the raid.
Published in Dawn, August 5th, 2022
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Aug 05, 2022 10:21am
What exactly is the issue? Can a Muslim woman not live with a Hindu? Laughable state
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Aug 05, 2022 10:24am
What is Anil's crime?
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Aug 05, 2022 10:25am
Such draconian laws in a country that treats preaching others as its favorite passtime.
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Aug 05, 2022 10:29am
One-way trafic, Muslim cannot convert but others can to Islam.
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Aug 05, 2022 10:34am
Wow! do you what happens in india! Many muslims freely marry hindu women & live happily - like all khans of bollywood. Is it what happened to 26% of hindu population in 1947 to less than 4% in 2022 of independent islamic pakistan?!
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Aug 05, 2022 10:36am
If the couple were of legal age, and had contracted a civil marriage, then what was wrong with it? We are getting as bad as our neighbour on the other side.
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Aug 05, 2022 10:37am
Why? this is what is happening in Pakistan, but you guys expect Hindu girls to marry Muslims, and we should not object to it???
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Aug 05, 2022 10:42am
This incident alone sums up Pakistan
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Aug 05, 2022 10:44am
Expected in Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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Aug 05, 2022 10:47am
Wow
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Aug 05, 2022 10:48am
Blatant discrimination! Whats most shocking is even after abductions, forced marriages and conversions, public lynchings, burning, dragging on streets on false blasphemy allegations, thousands of missing persons, extrajudicial killings, rights abuse, how Pakistan still finds moral courage to point at others
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Aug 05, 2022 10:49am
So much for secularism
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Aug 05, 2022 10:50am
So what does Pakistan leaders say?
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Aug 05, 2022 10:54am
What's the reason for raid and reason for arrest?
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Aug 05, 2022 10:55am
Please enlighten us, brave critics of Indian democracy and secularism! When your own home is a cesspool, it's wise not to criticize your neighbors.
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Aug 05, 2022 10:56am
Such a narrow-minded society will never prosper.
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Aug 05, 2022 10:57am
What is the problem if the husband is Hindu?
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Aug 05, 2022 10:58am
Terrorism is baked into mind and society.
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Aug 05, 2022 10:58am
Guess what??? And Pakistan wants to preach to India about interfaith marriages!
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Aug 05, 2022 10:59am
Reverse love jihad - Pakistani Edition.
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Aug 05, 2022 11:00am
Is this your idea of religious tolerance??
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Aug 05, 2022 11:00am
Wow what a great achievement by pakistan
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Aug 05, 2022 11:02am
What kind of law is this?
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Aug 05, 2022 11:03am
Living example of tolerance and religious freedom.
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Aug 05, 2022 11:03am
Wow, so Hindu man and Muslim woman married. Man arrested. Why, you hypocrites?
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Aug 05, 2022 11:08am
Why was she forcing him to change religion
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Aug 05, 2022 11:09am
Lol. Yeah we will only let old Muslim men marry young Hindu girls after forced conversions. That's our process.
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Aug 05, 2022 11:11am
This is called exploiting minority group. Ridiculous
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Aug 05, 2022 11:12am
Travesty of justice in the land of pure!
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Aug 05, 2022 11:14am
Hypocrisy!
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Aug 05, 2022 11:18am
is it ok if 65 year old Saudi Shaikh marries a 11 year old girl in rural Punjab?
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Aug 05, 2022 11:19am
Muslim ego terribly hurt...
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Aug 05, 2022 11:20am
Those who usually point fingers at India are quiet today.
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Aug 05, 2022 11:21am
wow! usually in more than 99% of the cases in other countries women change their religion & here man does, no worries but arrested for interfaith marriage, wow! Naya Pakistan is only a paint in front of the old Pakistan
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Aug 05, 2022 11:24am
Dawn printed this news is the big news. Dawn did never print the everyday forced conversions happening in Sind, MNAs involvement.
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Aug 05, 2022 11:27am
These are the reasons why Islamophobia increases all over the world. Why can’t you allow two persons of different religions live together ? Other religions are more tolerant in this matter.
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Aug 05, 2022 11:30am
And citizens complain about Islamophobia
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Aug 05, 2022 11:39am
Yes. The Hindu needs to convert to Islam to marry a Muslim. The reverse is prohibited of course, and the two cannot marry by retaining their respective faiths as well.
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Aug 05, 2022 11:41am
Why? What have they done except to fall in love? That's no crime
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Aug 05, 2022 11:44am
Pakistan really need to import mirrors
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Aug 05, 2022 11:50am
Pakistan doesn't have right to talk of minorities in India. World is observing every demon activities of Pakistanis.
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Aug 05, 2022 11:52am
Terrible mediaeval society
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Aug 05, 2022 11:54am
@shahid, I see no problem. If he doesn’t want to convert to Islam, maybe divorce! But anything else, not necessary.
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Aug 05, 2022 11:57am
He was arrested because his wife was too old. In Pakistan only 12 year old girls are so eager to marry 45 year old men that they study religion even if they don't know how to read.
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Aug 05, 2022 12:04pm
@Akram Mallik, " We are getting as bad as our neighbour on the other side."
inter religion marriages are legal and common in india.
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Aug 05, 2022 12:09pm
Wrong heading, the heading should be that he was picked on the complaint of wife
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Aug 05, 2022 12:10pm
How ridiculous! Pakistan is a joke.
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Aug 05, 2022 12:36pm
I have seen Pakistan 20 years later through time travel. It's still like today
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Aug 05, 2022 12:55pm
@Trabant, They also do not seem to have produced Marriage Documents and obviously these cannot be prepared while retaining their faiths intact.
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Aug 05, 2022 02:09pm
What else one can expect from the Land of pure !
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Aug 05, 2022 02:20pm
Religious Tolerance in Pakistan !!!
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Aug 05, 2022 02:41pm
@kamal chowkidar, grooming an innocent women and her sexual abuse.
Would India allow this? Isn't this called love jihad?
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Aug 05, 2022 02:42pm
Indians crying here should explain why the same thing in India is called love jihad and carried jail sentences for Muslim men.
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Aug 05, 2022 02:44pm
@Venkat, this not allowed in Pakistan.
Just like a Muslim man would be jailed in India for being with a Hindu women.
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Aug 05, 2022 03:12pm
Pathetic hindu is a human and a woman can marry a human,why arrested in a dark age country?Inter faith marriage is legal in human race, law should be amended in this stone age country.
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Aug 05, 2022 03:38pm
That’s getting interesting . Government must protect the couple and their marriage .
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Aug 05, 2022 04:18pm
@Tamil Tulukan Speaks, "So what does Pakistan leaders say" . Pakistan leaders are part of the problem.
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Aug 05, 2022 04:21pm
@PTI_supporter, Yes provided he is very wealthy !!!.
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Aug 05, 2022 04:26pm
@Rohit Nagpal, Yes, Rohit, this is a big courageous act on part of Dawn. Inter faith marriages have been happening, but this is the first time that Dawn has printed an article on this subject. Hopefully we the readers hope as Dawn it will be lead to dialogue, an exchange of thoughts in a positive manner, and Pakistan society will accept interfaith marriages, will accept all humans as equals, will accept others as their own. Dawn has put its best foot forward in publishing this article.
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Aug 05, 2022 05:16pm
It is evil to break up two people who love each other.
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Aug 06, 2022 12:21am
Actually Islam is very clear. A Muslim man can not live with a Hindu woman. And a Muslim woman cannot live with a Hindu man.
The only exception is a Muslim man can live with a Christian or Jewish woman. But he must raise the children and teach them Islam
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Aug 06, 2022 03:15am
If only she had converted him to Islam, which will happen soon if he wants his wife back.
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Aug 06, 2022 05:41am
@Venkat, how can any one live as husband and wife without proper documents.. secondly a Muslim cannot marry a Hindu unless the other embraces Islam. That is the Muslim law all over this planet.
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Aug 06, 2022 11:21am
@Venkat, it's not legal hope we have secular laws
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Aug 06, 2022 11:21am
It's not legal bro
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Aug 06, 2022 01:58pm
Islam does not allow non muslim men to marry muslim women. No arrest is needed. Annulment or conversion of the man is the answer.
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