“The lack of a law regulating Christian marriage in Pakistan is encouraging couples who wish to remarry to convert to Islam.”
This is because there are no laws for Christians and other infidels to divorce in Pakistan, even in cases where abuse might be involved. Millions of infidel citizens are affected by the lack of marriage and divorce laws in Pakistan.
To escape abusive marriages, many Christians and other infidels in Pakistan convert to Islam. Once again, the arrow points in only one direction on issues of human rights, i.e., against non-Muslims. Infidels have no rights in Pakistan.
Two years ago, to make a show on International Women’s Day, the Government of Punjab announced the implementation of changes to laws “that govern Christian marriage in order to better protect women.” Marriages were to be registered. To get married, “marriage certificates for Christians, Hindus or Parsis are issued by church or temple leaders and registered with local Union Council.” However, nothing else followed in terms of women’s rights in divorce cases and settlements. Why should it? Because in Islam, women are inferiors, the triple talaq is still being performed under sharia (“I divorce you” said three times allows a woman to be thrown in the streets) and Islamic laws overwhelmingly favor men in divorce settlements. There are no provisions for other faiths, whose adherents are deemed inferior even to Muslim women.
“Christian couple: the lack of a marriage law encourages conversions to Islam,” by Shafique Khokhar, Asia News, September 24, 2019:
Islamabad (AsiaNews) – The lack of a law regulating Christian marriage in Pakistan is encouraging couples who wish to remarry to convert to Islam, this according to a Christian couple who spoke to AsiaNews.
As a result of irreconcilable differences between themselves and their families, the two separated and now want the country’s parliament to adopt without delay the Christian Marriage and Divorce Act 2019, whose first draft was approved last August.
Imran Masih and Amber got married in 2013. They had two children, a boy and a girl. Right away, the two grew apart. He accused her of spending too much time away from home, with her family; in turn, she complained that he left her alone at home all day, and for this she sought her parents’ company. In 2016 the couple decided to part ways.
“I was totally broken after the fight between our two families,” said Imran. “Amber left me and started living with her parents. I waited a year, then decided to get marry again, but when I went to church, I was refused to marry again because there was no law for Christians to divorce.”
The only way to marry his new bride was to get marry in a Muslim court signing a Nikkah, a freely consented marriage contract. Both Imran and Aasha “belong to Christian families but due to lack of proper family law we did that (Muslim Nikkah) and after this marriage we still perform our Christian rituals,” he said.
Unlike her husband, Amber has not remarried. “I could have had a second marriage but because of the lack of a proper Christian family law I decided not to marry again since it would require me to convert to Islam,” she explained. Now “I am living with my parents and kids.” She gets a monthly alimony from her former husband.
The former spouses say they are not the only Christians in this situation. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) and the People’s Commission for Minority Rights (PCMR) held a seminar on 18 September in support of such requests. The two organisations brought together religious leaders, lawyers, educators and civil society groups….