Increasingly and mostly as an outcome of China’s One-Child policy, more and more Chinese are looking for a bride, and Beijing’s all-weather friend–Pakistan has a role to play. The China Pakistan Economic Corridor or CPEC has increased engagement in all spheres of society including people-to-people spurring many marriages, many times a pure outcome of economics.
It has emerged that agents in China and Pakistan have used the garb of CPEC to literally kidnap girls from lower socio-economic backgrounds, especially from minority communities such as Christians, and marry them off to Chinese men.
Many of these marriages have taken place in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Mandi Bahauddin, and Faisalabad. For a prospect of a better life in China, many of the unsuspecting women take the bait, and much to their shock life hasn’t been easy in the foreign land.
One of the biggest fall out of these marriages has been, many times women who have been to China are unable to…
