Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday termed the practice of forced conversions as “un-Islamic” and said there was no precedent in Islamic history for forcefully converting others.
Addressing an event in connection with National Minorities Day at the Aiwan-e-Sadr (President’s House) here, Khan vowed to protect and develop worship places of minorities in Pakistan and also facilitate them to the maximum level to perform them religious rituals.
Khan said the Prophet himself had given minorities religious freedom and protected their places of worship.
“How can we then take it into our own hands to forcefully convert someone to Islam - either by marrying (non-Muslim) women (...) or on gunpoint or to (by threatening to) kill someone because of their religion?” he asked.