Geneva, April 24 -- Pakistan is facing renewed international scrutiny after United Nations human rights experts raised alarm over the persistent abduction and forced religious conversion of minority women and girls, describing the pattern as widespread and deeply entrenched.

In a press release issued by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, experts said that coercion and lack of legal safeguards are enabling forced conversions through marriage, particularly targeting Hindu and Christian communities. They stressed that any change of religion must be voluntary and that child marriage invalidates consent under international law.

According to the experts, nearly 75 per cent of reported cases in 2025 involved H...