PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
Kidnapping and forced conversions in Pakistan (23 March 2021)

Motion Details

That this House notes with grave concern reports from Pakistan that Kavita Kumari, a 13 year-old Hindu girl was abducted at gunpoint from her home in Kandhkot, Sindh, and is further appalled that, despite her school certificate showing her to be 13-years-old, she was converted to Islam in a triumphant public ceremony by Mian Mithoo, the custodian of a Muslim shrine, Barchundi Sharif; and calls on the UK government to do everything in its power to help Kavita and all of the estimated 1,000 Pakistani Christian and Hindu girls who are kidnapped, forced to convert and marry their abductor every year.

Sponsored by:
Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Democratic Unionist Party
3
38%
 
 
Scottish National Party
3
38%
 
 
Independent
1
13%
 
 
Conservative
1
13%
 
Sponsor List (8 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Con
Bob Blackman
Harrow East
Ind
Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson
SNP
Marion Fellows
DUP
Paul Girvan
DUP
Carla Lockhart
Upper Bann
SNP
Carol Monaghan
DUP
Jim Shannon (Sponsor)
Strangford
SNP
Alison Thewliss

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