Muslim ‘wife’ living with Hindu man in Sindh's Mirpurkhas sent to safe house

E-Paper | July 09, 2026

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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Venkat

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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kamal chowkidar

Aug 05, 2022 10:24am

What is Anil's crime?

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Dinesh

Aug 05, 2022 10:25am

Such draconian laws in a country that treats preaching others as its favorite passtime.

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ABCD

Aug 05, 2022 10:29am

One-way trafic, Muslim cannot convert but others can to Islam.

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vijay

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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Akram Mallik

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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MM Nayi

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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Abhishek Singha

Aug 05, 2022 10:42am

This incident alone sums up Pakistan

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Bipin

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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Tejinderpal

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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Nambi

Aug 05, 2022 10:49am

So much for secularism

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Tamil Tulukan Speaks

Aug 05, 2022 10:50am

So what does Pakistan leaders say?

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Kishore

Aug 05, 2022 10:54am

What's the reason for raid and reason for arrest?

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Shubs

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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shahid

Aug 05, 2022 10:56am

Such a narrow-minded society will never prosper.

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shahid

Aug 05, 2022 10:57am

What is the problem if the husband is Hindu?

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Truth

Aug 05, 2022 10:58am

Terrorism is baked into mind and society.

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Ppv

Aug 05, 2022 10:58am

Guess what??? And Pakistan wants to preach to India about interfaith marriages!

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Kris

Aug 05, 2022 10:59am

Reverse love jihad - Pakistani Edition.

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Jai

Aug 05, 2022 11:00am

Is this your idea of religious tolerance??

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Ejeje

Aug 05, 2022 11:00am

Wow what a great achievement by pakistan

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Guru

Aug 05, 2022 11:02am

What kind of law is this?

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Name me kya hai

Aug 05, 2022 11:03am

Living example of tolerance and religious freedom.

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DeSilva

Aug 05, 2022 11:03am

Wow, so Hindu man and Muslim woman married. Man arrested. Why, you hypocrites?

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Maromuje

Aug 05, 2022 11:08am

Why was she forcing him to change religion

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asim

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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Rensoyphilip

Aug 05, 2022 11:12am

Travesty of justice in the land of pure!

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Bhutanese

Aug 05, 2022 11:14am

Hypocrisy!

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PTI_supporter

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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Jill

Aug 05, 2022 11:19am

Muslim ego terribly hurt...

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Zoltar

Aug 05, 2022 11:20am

Those who usually point fingers at India are quiet today.

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Bakra

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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Rohit Nagpal

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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P Datta

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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Nambi

Aug 05, 2022 11:30am

And citizens complain about Islamophobia

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Trabant

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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Mohsin

Aug 05, 2022 11:41am

Why? What have they done except to fall in love? That's no crime

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Bull's eye

Aug 05, 2022 11:44am

Pakistan really need to import mirrors

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Uma Mahesh

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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Ibrahim

Aug 05, 2022 11:52am

Terrible mediaeval society

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Raven

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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adhd

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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Umair

Aug 05, 2022 12:09pm

Wrong heading, the heading should be that he was picked on the complaint of wife

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Geert Wilders

Aug 05, 2022 12:10pm

How ridiculous! Pakistan is a joke.

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KHAN

Aug 05, 2022 12:36pm

I have seen Pakistan 20 years later through time travel. It's still like today

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Majid Latif

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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Dependent Foreign Policy

Aug 05, 2022 02:09pm

What else one can expect from the Land of pure !

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M. Emad

Aug 05, 2022 02:20pm

Religious Tolerance in Pakistan !!!

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Raheel

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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Raheel

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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Raheel

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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John

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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Ibrahim S

Aug 05, 2022 03:38pm

That’s getting interesting . Government must protect the couple and their marriage .

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Reader

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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Reader

Aug 05, 2022 04:21pm

@PTI_supporter, Yes provided he is very wealthy !!!.

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Reader

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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Kashif

Aug 05, 2022 05:16pm

It is evil to break up two people who love each other.

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tariq

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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Henchi

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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Qaiser

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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Arif

Aug 06, 2022 11:21am

@Venkat, it's not legal hope we have secular laws

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Arif

Aug 06, 2022 11:21am

It's not legal bro

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Taimur Khan

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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