Ajbi Lal sat quietly weeping outside an Islamabad court while she waited to learn if her teenage daughters would be returned to her. People passing by pointed and laughed at her attire and jewellery, which denoted her status as a Hindu village woman from one of Pakistan's poorest provinces.

Ms Lal's two daughters, Reena and Raveena, have become the faces of forced conversion in Pakistan. Their parents say they were abducted, forced to convert to Islam, and married off to Muslim men. It is a practice that human rights groups say has been going on for years, targeting Christian and Hindu girls from poor families and low castes.

ABC - Hindu sisters Reena and Raveena become face of forced religious conversion in Pakistan