Pakistan: Parents of Missing Hindu Girl Protest in Karachi for Her Recovery

In Karachi city, the parents of a Hindu girl have staged a protest. She went missing in Pakistan’s Sindh province in 2021.

The parents are seeking her recovery after her ‘mysterious’ disappearance.

On August 19, 2021, Priya Kumari vanished mysteriously while serving sherbet to a Muharram Ashura procession near her house in Sangrar, a small town near Sukkur in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. At that time, she was seven years old.

On Friday, at the famous Teen Talwar landmark in Karachi’s Clifton area, her grief-stricken and tired parents, Raj Kumar Pal and his wife Veena Kumari staged a protest to remind people that their daughter had still not recovered.

Authorities have again promised them that they were searching for their daughter, and she will be recovered soon, said Raj said.

The parents called off their protest after Sindh home minister, Zia Langrove, and Inspector General of Police, Javed Odho, came to meet them.

They confirmed to the parents that a full-fledged Joint Investigation Team (JIT) was working on the case.

The Inspector General of Police said that even after the formation of the JIT, no witness remembers what happened to the little girl.

The JIT is working round the clock to solve this case, and we will have an answer soon, Odho said.

In Pakistan, Sindh has a significant Hindu community, and according to Raj, after Priya’s disappearance, there is more concern and fear among the people for the security of their daughters and sisters.

In many parts of the province, the disappearance and abduction of minor, teenage, or even married Hindu women are not uncommon.