Police in Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi arrested a man on Monday for allegedly abducting and forcibly converting a teenage Christian girl, before marrying her. Murtaza Wahab, a spokesperson for the Sindh government confirmed that the girl was recovered from the custody of the man on the orders of the Sindh High Court, which has directed authorities to medically confirm her age and produce her before it at the next hearing on Thursday.
Police have arrested Syed Ali Azhar, the girl’s alleged husband, his brothers Syed Shariq Ali, Syed Mohsin Ali and a friend, Danish, for allegedly abducting the girl and forcibly converting her. Karachi police chief Additional IG Arif Hanif said the 13-year-old girl was recovered from the custody of Azhar safely.
The girl was sent to a shelter home on the directives of the court, he added. The alleged abduction of the 13-year-old girl last month had…