According to sources the United Nations' Commission on the Status of women (CSW) has said that discriminatory legislation by the pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government has empowered people with "extremist mindsets" to carry out attacks on religious minorities. Meanwhile in its 47-page report titled, ''Pakistan-Religious freedom under attack'', released in december, the CSW, a commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, has expressed concerns over the increasing "weaponisation and politicisation" of the blasphemy laws and the anti-Ahmadiyya legislation which are being used not only to persecute religious minorities but also to gain political ground.
Furthermore the commission said that christian and hindu communities in pakistan are "particularly vulnerable", especially women and girls. The report read "Each year hundreds are abducted and forced to convert and marry Muslim men. Victims have little or no hope of being returned to their families due to the serious threats and intimidation from abductors against the girls and their families. This is compounded by the lack of police will to take action, weaknesses in the judicial process and discrimination from both police and judiciary towards religious minority victims".
Moreover CSW stated that cases of forced marriages and forced conversions are prevalent among christian and hindu girls and women, particularly in the punjab and Sindh provinces. Perhaps many of them are girls under the age of 18 years and also hindu girls and women who are systematically targeted because they come from lower economic backgrounds in rural areas, and are generally under-educated.
