New Delhi

The Sikhs in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan have been sitting in protest outside a police station in Peer Baba town for two days over the ‘abduction’ of a Sikh teacher Dina Kour on Saturday, her ‘forcible’ conversion to Islam and marriage to a Muslim neighbour.

The incident according to Dawn newspaper happened in Peer Baba town of Buner district.

“Dina Kumari, 25, a government teacher, went to duty on Saturday and did not return,” Sanat Singh, a close relative of the woman told Dawn.com. He said the family had started a search for her but it was in vain. The Sikh community again approached the police who informed them that Dina Kour had been found and she had married her neighbour, a Muslim man, in court.

Dina Kour was engaged to a community member and her wedding was to be solemnized in two months.

Her father, who was featured in a video posted on Twitter, accompanied by relatives and friends alleged that his daughter was forcibly converted to Islam while the family was kept engaged in the local police station where they had gone to file an FIR on her abduction.

Video featuring her father has been shared on Twitter:

Now, a Sikh girl Deena Kaur abducted, converted & forcefully married off to her abductor in Pakistan.

Sikh community in Pakistan has appealed to all the Sikhs across the world to come out & protest against the abduction, conversion & forceful marriage of Sikh girl in Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/ft57KxYuP8

— Anshul Saxena (@AskAnshul) August 21, 2022

“They kept us in dark all the day and only in the evening told us that she has undergone a religious conversion and solemnized her nikah and there is little they can do now,” the father said.

Her distraught father alleged the police refused to even register an FIR and has told the Sikh community to remain silent.

Dina Kour appeared in a video posted on BBC Urdu and said she had married the neighbour because she loved Islam.The Sikh man alleged that “the system and administration were involved in the episode of his daughter’s abduction, religious conversion, and forced marriage.”

Yet in another anti-minority mob frenzy in Hyderabad city of Sindh in Pakistan, the timely intervention of police helped in saving a Hindu man identified as Ashok Kumar, a sanitary worker, from mob lynching.

Ashok was accused of blasphemy by shopkeeper Bilal Abbasi after the two had a verbal spat. The shopkeeper raised a hue and cry and in no time a lathi-wielding mob started beating him in the compound of the apartment.

This episode was filmed by someone and shared by senior Pakistani journalist Mubashir Zaidi on Twitter:

Hyderabad police dispersed a violent mob which was demanding handing over a Hindu sanitary worker accusing him of #blasphemy Police claims the sanitary worker was targeted because of a personal clash with a local resident pic.twitter.com/CnSFLNLqhH

— Mubashir Zaidi (@Xadeejournalist) August 21, 2022

The heartrending videos posted on social media show Ashok even climbing the iron grill of the balcony of an apartment to save himself while people continue to chase him.

Later, according to Pakistan news reports, the Police intervened and saved Ashok’s life. The Police filed an FIR under Blasp[hemy laws against him after Abbassi complained.

The police admitted there was a tiff between Ashok and Abbassi.