Pakistani Activists Rally To Protest Forced Conversion Of Girls From Religious Minorities

Dozens of Pakistani religious minority activists rallied in Islamabad against the forced conversion of girls, often as a precursor to marriage. Protestors held banners and chanted slogans seeking government action to stop such conversions to Pakistan's official religion, Islam. The August 11 march from the National Press Club toward parliament, was organized by the Minorities' Alliance Pakistan, a political party established in 2002.