MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

“The first attempt of mediation by the ‘All Pakistan Minorities Alliance’ (APMA) in the case of Hatim Farah, a Catholic girl who was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam, has failed in the courts.  Farah was also forced to marry a Muslim man in the city of Zeehan in the southern Punjab region of Pakistan.

APMA, which was founded by Shabhaz Bhatti – a Christian politician who was murdered earlier this year by Muslim terrorists – is the best known organization defending Christians in Pakistan.  The case of Farah, explain local sources, is emblematic of the approximately 700 cases that occur every year in Pakistan for Christian girls kidnapped and converted to Islam. This is why Paul Bhatti, leader of the APMA and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for religious minorities has committed himself on this case.

A team of APMA lawyers and activists in Punjab have taken an interest in the case in recent days, trying to arrange a meeting between the Farah and her family, to ensure her health, physical and mental condition and, above all, to get absolute certainty – confirmed without conditions, threats or coercion of any kind – of her desire to go back home and leave the Muslim family where she is now.

A member of the APMA reportedly said, ‘We asked, through local authorities, for a private meeting with Farah. The Muslim’s family who has made her his wife says that she is consenting. If they are sure and if this were true, why prevent the family and lawyers from seeing and listening to her version directly? This impediment for us is really suspicious’.” Read more.