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Balochistan's minority MPAs protest over missing Hindu girl

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QUETTA: Minority members of the Balochistan Assembly, Dr Ashok Kumar of the PML-N and Sanjay Kumar of the PPP, strongly protested the failure to recover a Hindu girl, Bindia Kumari, who was allegedly abducted from Sibi 27 days ago. The minority members had previously raised the issue of Kumari’s alleged abduction and transfer to Sindh in the Balochistan Assembly. They had also informed the court that she was forcibly converted to Islam and married. Raising the issue during the assembly session, the two lawmakers expressed serious concern over her continued disappearance and demanded urgent action for her recovery. In protest, both minority members sat on the floor in front of the speaker’s dais and chanted…

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