{"id":35764,"date":"2020-08-26T08:05:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T08:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=35764"},"modified":"2020-08-26T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T08:07:09","slug":"pakistan-escape-from-the-house-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2020\/08\/26\/pakistan-escape-from-the-house-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"PAKISTAN: Escape from the house of hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 14-year-old Christian girl has escaped from the man a High Court in Pakistan ruled to be her husband and has gone to the police to say that she was filmed while being raped by him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maira Shahbaz, her mother, Nighat, and three siblings are on the run from Mohamad Nakash after the Catholic girl from Madina Town, Punjab Province, fled his home in nearby Faisalabad where sources close to the family say she was forced into prostitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Maira, Mr Nakash has threatened to kill both her and her family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Catholic girl refuses to accept her forced conversion from Christianity, which she says she was tricked into doing by being pressured into signing blank papers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said her abductors warned that, if she did not comply with their demands, they would publish the video of her being raped online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an interview with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Lala Robin Daniel, a friend of Maira\u2019s family, described life on the run, moving from place to place every few days, adding: \u201cMaira is traumatised. She cannot speak. We want to take her to the doctor but we are afraid we might be spotted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are all very frightened but we place our trust in God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maira\u2019s claims against Mr Nakash and his accomplices are set out in a statement she made to police, a copy of which has been issued to ACN by the family\u2019s lawyer, Khalil Tahir Sandhu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Describing what happened after she was reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint in April, Maira states: \u201cI found myself at an unknown place where the accused forced me to have a glass of juice that contained some intoxicant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI was semi-conscious at that moment and the accused raped me forcefully and also filmed me naked. When I came to my senses, I started shouting and requesting them to release me\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThey threatened to murder my whole family. They have also shown me my naked video and pictures which they have taken on their mobile while raping me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She continues: \u201cMy life was at stake in the hands of the accused and\u2026 Nakash repeatedly raped me forcefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The family are calling for Mr Nakash\u2019s arrest for sex crimes involving a minor and Mr Tahir Sandhu has applied to the courts both to cancel her marriage to him and her forced conversion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the meantime, Mr Nakash is calling for the arrest of Maira\u2019s mother, Nighat, her uncles and Mr Daniel, claiming they kidnapped the girl from his home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This comes nearly three weeks after Lahore High Court ruled in Mr Nakash\u2019s favour in the case of the girl\u2019s alleged abduction on 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0April, when it is claimed he and two armed accomplices kidnapped her in broad daylight close to her home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The family has consistently contested Mr Nakash\u2019s claims of marrying Maira, and in court Mr Tahir Sandhu produced an official birth certificate to show the girl was 13 at the time of the alleged ceremony last October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Muslim cleric named in the marriage certificate dismissed it as a fake and went to the police to complain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acnmalta.org\/donate\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35565 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-580x85.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old Christian girl has escaped from the man a High Court in Pakistan ruled to be her husband and has gone to the police to say that she was filmed while being raped by him. 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