May 7, 2019
Parents receive several thousand dollars and are told that their new sons-in-law are wealthy Christian converts. The grooms turn out to be neither, according to several brides, their parents, an activist, pastors and government officials, all of whom spoke to The Associated Press.
On Monday, Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency arrested eight Chinese nationals and four Pakistanis in raids in Punjab province in connection with trafficking, Geo TV reported. It said the raids followed an undercover operation that included attending an arranged marriage. “It’s purely supply and demand,” she said. “It used to be, ‘Is she light-skinned?’ Now it’s like, ‘Is she female?’”Saleem Iqbal, a Christian activist, said he first began to see significant numbers of marriage to Chinese men in October. Since then, an estimated 750 to 1,000 girls have been married off, he said.
Muqadas’ mother Nasreen said she was promised about $5,000, which included the cost of the wedding and her daughter’s wedding dress. “But I have not seen anything yet,” she said. Pastor Munch Morris said he knows a group of pastors in his neighborhood who work with a private Chinese marriage broker. Among them, he said, is a fellow pastor at his church who tells his flock, “God is happy because these Chinese boys convert to Christianity. They are helping the poor Christian girls.”
Pakistani and Chinese brokers work together in the trade. One prominent broker in Gujranwala is a Pakistani known only as Robinson. He refused to talk to the AP, but his wife Razia told the AP that they make arrangements through a Chinese marriage bureau in Islamabad.
inquisation law applies in Pakistan 4 antichrists
Pathetic story pakistan pm MrImran should read and take action
Prove a Christian anything was part of this?
These aren't 'brides' - they're sex slaves and victims of human trafficking. Words matter.
It’s a horrible faith, secretly wishing to be Islamic
CPEC has started to pay off 😁
WTF
Disgusting. Women are not cattle to be bought and sold.
Need $ ? Sell your daughter. I would rather die of starvation.
Organised religion requires funding. And they get to go to heaven when they die.
Labeled as Christian pastors ? A Christian is someone that follows Christ FYI
I hate that part of the world. It’s a curse to be born a female.
How many young women around the world wish they were likewise 'targeted' for marriage by a rich man?
No kidding. Ha!
WTF
Why can't these men find their own brides? Yuck.
Married to 'culture' too?
St They need to look to N.Korea.
🤬
Gross
JimMuambi Stupidity
China is a big threat to the world.
Get beheaded as an infidel or pimped to China. Nice
Truth of pakistan
Disgusting!
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