629 Pakistani Women And Girls Have Been Sold As Brides To Chinese Men: Report

Read as: slaves

China has a shortage of women, Pakistan too many but this is not the solution. This is human trafficking

Misleading headline, not that that is new to Huffpo. Note who permitted the “sale”? This is done in a few countries, it should be addressed by the UN as to the international judgement. From the article.

An AP investigation earlier this year revealed how Pakistan’s Christian minority has become a new target of brokers who pay impoverished parents to marry off their daughters, some of them teenagers, to Chinese husbands who return with them to their homeland. Many of the brides are then isolated and abused or forced into prostitution in China, often contacting home and pleading to be brought back. The AP spoke to police and court officials and more than a dozen brides — some of whom made it back to Pakistan, others who remained trapped in China — as well as remorseful parents, neighbors, relatives and human rights workers.”