Karachi
Scheduled Caste Hindus demand marriage registration in Pakistan
our correspondent
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Karachi
The Scheduled Caste Hindus (Dalits) have demanded marriage
registration in the country, which is home to 3.4 million of them.
According to a press release issued on Wednesday, the community has
demanded that for Hindu families, the lack of marriage registration
mechanism is a matter of serious concern. As shared by them, lack of
Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) and marriage registration
has resulted in many domestic, social and psychological problems for
the Hindu families, especially women and girls.
Hindu married couples face numerous problems in travelling and lodging
outside their residence. Due to an absence of CNIC and marriage
registration mechanism, the Scheduled Caste Hindu women do not get any
share in their husbands' property and their access to health
facilities and participation in social, economic and political
processes is also minimal.
According to them, for years Hindu women have been forcibly converted
to Islam and married to Muslim men, while they were already married to
a Hindu. Since there is no documentation to prove the earlier
marriage, the woman's husband or family is unable to take up the issue
on legal grounds.
The statement mentions that although several letters have been written
to the government but nothing has been done in this regard, and
neither the minority parliamentarians are listening to anyone in
Pakistan.
In a nation of mainly Muslim inhabitants, around 0.25 per cent of the
population comprises of minorities. According to the 1998 census upper
caste, Hindus are just over 2.1 million though these figures are
contested by the representatives of the lower caste Hindus as they
believe that discrimination and the state's denial of their problems
begins with numbers and estimates that the population of lower caste
Hindus is more than two million.
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