In this April 14, 2019 photo, Mahek Liaqat, who married a Chinese national, shows her marriage certificate in Gujranwala, Pakistan. Poor Pakistani Christian girls are being lured into marriages with Chinese men, whom they are told are Christian and wealthy only to end up trapped in China, married to men who are neither Christian nor well-to-do, and some are unable to return home.
“This is human smuggling,” said Ijaz Alam Augustine, the human rights and minorities minister in Pakistan’s Punjab province, in an interview with the AP. “Greed is really responsible for these marriages ... I have met with some of these girls and they are very poor.” The Chinese embassy said last month that China is cooperating with Pakistan to crack down on unlawful matchmaking centers, saying “both Chinese and Pakistani youths are victims of these illegal agents.”
Pakistan’s small Christian community, centered in Punjab province, makes a vulnerable target. Numbering some 2.5 million in the country’s overwhelmingly Muslim population of 200 million, Christians are among Pakistan’s most deeply impoverished. They also have little political or social support. “I really believed I was giving her a chance at a better life and also a better life for us,” Nasreen said.Dozens of priests are paid by brokers to find brides for Chinese men, said Augustine, the provincial minorities minister, who is Christian. Many are from the small evangelical churches that have proliferated in Pakistan.
Morris opposes such marriages, calling them an insult. “We know these marriages are all for the sake of money.” Moqadas and another young woman from the same neighborhood, Mahek Liaqat, said Robinson arranged their marriages, providing photos of potential grooms. Afterward, they each described being taken to the same, multi-story house in Islamabad, a sort of boarding house with bedrooms. There, each met her husband for the first time face-to-face and spent her wedding night.
Christians do not marry off there daughters for money.
abort fewer (female) babies: problem solved
It IS human trafficking of these poor minority girls & their plight doesn't end there. Their parents don't know that their daughters end up killed in China 4 OrganTrafficking. These evil Chinese r after selling the christian Pakistani girls organs n prostitute them 2 enrichment
bmorsh The parents sold their kids 👎👎
Fraud and faith, how each complement the other.
“Christians”. 🙄
Smarten up dumbasses and don’t sell your own children off. How hard is this concept to understand?
It’s horrible what poor young girls have to go through on a daily around the world. It is sickening really.
What is the US doing to stop this?
China selling a fake product to screw with other nations. Gee, is it a day that ends in 'Y' again?
chinese hoax
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