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Brides of contention

By Hasan Mujtaba    ( I wrote this story about forced conversion of Hindu women in Pakistan of  1994. So far forced conversion of Hindu women  nothing has been changed. Even the modus operandi of forced conversions and its operaters remain as the same). .....                           ......                                    .........                               .......   On January 19, a Hindu girl named Daya Bai disappeared from her house in Daharki, district Ghotki (Sindh, Pakistan). She surfaced ten days later outside the deputy commissioner's office, wearing bridal clothes,and accompanied by several hundred strong gathering (MANY OF WHOM WERE ARMED WITH AUTOMATIC WEAPONS) led by pirs of Bharchundi chanting allaho - akbar. During the nikah (wedding) that followed, Daya Bai's mother wept inconsolably, repeatedly striking her head on the floor in anguish,"let me meet my daughter even if she is getting married' she implored but her pleas fell on deaf ea