MULTAN, Jan 7: At least 350 Christian women have been kidnapped and forcibly married in Pakistan so far Bishop Ashaar Kamran of Multan’s Methodist Church said on Monday.

Speaking at a protest rally, he said most of the women were divorced shortly afterwards. A recent incident in Multan, he said, involved a mother of five, kidnapped from Tareen Colony. The police, he said, had registered the case but there had been no further action so far. He demanded that the district government take the steps necessary to stop such incidents.

The government, he said, should also act against the women who routinely converted to Islam and returned to Christianity for reasons of convenience and followed neither Islam nor Christianity.

Participants of the rally included Church of Christ Priest Aamir Kamran, Priest David Michael, former MPA Musthaq Masih, Gloria Ilman, councillor Amjad Chishti and Tariq Khan.