The EU has recently been putting a lot of pressure on Pakistan and is threatening to renegotiate it’s trade deals due to Pakistan’s human rights record.
The EU is concerned about cases like that of Nayab Gill, a 13 year old girl from a Christian minority family. She has been forcibly converted and married to her abductor (a man who has 5 children already).
Nayab has not been returned home despite appeals from her family and community and despite the clear evidence of her age stated on her birth certificate – below – which shows that she was born in 2007.
At the most senior level Pakistan has many fine judges and they need to urgently intervene, uphold the law and protect girls like Nayab.
And Pakistan’s leaders should not be surprised when the European Union refuses to turn a blind eye to such appalling practices
