The World - News from Feb. 29, 1988

Two people were killed and 23 were wounded when 10,000 Hindus attacked government offices in southern Pakistan and fought police over the reported abduction of a Hindu girl. A government statement said the crowd was incited by reports that the 16-year-old girl had been kidnaped by a Muslim and converted to Islam before a magistrate at Mirpurkhas, near the Indian border. An armed crowd demanding her return attacked police and tried to set fire to government offices. Local leaders said police rounded up more than 100 Hindus. Pakistan became an Islamic state in the 1947 partition of India, and the country’s tiny Hindu minority resides almost exclusively in the southeast.