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'Untouchable Pak Hindus being sexploited'
7 Sep 2008, 0101 hrs IST,PTI


KARACHI: A new study has found that the Hindus belonging to lower (scheduled) castes are unofficially declared as "untouchables" and are given a second-grade-citizen treatment. Their kids are made to clean the school premises and are forced to sit on back benches.

The study also found that Hindu women belonging to scheduled castes were the most vulnerable and considered "sexually available by men" of Muslim-dominated communities. Since they are economically weaker with no social support or political leverage in the community, their young women were lured into matrimony or abducted and wed through forced conversions.

"The abduction of young scheduled caste women is frequent and often reported in regional newspapers. And they are kidnapped or lured and then used sexually and sometimes abandoned after being kept in custody," found the study. The research carried out by the 'Long Behind Schedule'on caste-based discrimination in Pakistan, was released at the Karachi Press Club on Friday evening.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Untouchable_Pak_Hindus_being_sexploited/articleshow/3453558.cms