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Each year, 1,000 girls are forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan

Neha's husband is in jail now facing charges of rape for the underage marriage, but she is in hiding, afraid after security guards confiscated a pistol from his brother in court. "He brought the gun to shoot me."

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Cops escort Arzoo Raja, background centre, out of the HC in Karachi. The Christian girl`s parents reported her missing. Two days later, cops said she was married to their 40-year-old Muslim neighbour and converted to Islam. Pic/AP

Cops escort Arzoo Raja, background centre, out of the HC in Karachi. The Christian girl`s parents reported her missing. Two days later, cops said she was married to their 40-year-old Muslim neighbour and converted to Islam. Pic/AP

Neha loved the hymns that filled her church with music. But she lost the chance to sing them last year when, at the age of 14, she was forcibly converted to Islam and married to a 45-year-old man with children twice her age.

Neha's husband is in jail now facing charges of rape for the underage marriage, but she is in hiding, afraid after security guards confiscated a pistol from his brother in court. "He brought the gun to shoot me."

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