Though child marriage overall has decreased in recent decades in Pakistan, there has been a rise in the abduction of underage girls from minority faiths who then undergo a forcible conversion to Islam and ensuing marriage to a Muslim. Because of this trend, U.N. experts have recently expressed concern about Pakistan’s forced conversions through marriage and the impunity with which perpetrators operate. Though some Sikh girls have been kidnapped, most of the incidents involve Hindu (the second-largest religion) or Christian (the third-largest religion) girls.