If you breathe under dictatorship rule, in a claustrophobic environment, well then pretty much anything is possible. Cruellest of cruellest things can happen with you. Ask Rani & her friend Malik.
“Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal,” says the country’s penal code, “shall be punished with imprisonment.”
Eighteen-year-old Rani says Iqbal, a 42-year-old fertilizer dealer, is a friend – not a lover.
“We were only celebrating my birthday,” Rani said.
But prosecutors say it was a marriage that was taking place. Police smashed their way in, broke up the party, arrested 43 dancing guests, Rani and Iqbal.
The officials however have a different (fabricated?) story to tell;
Peshawar police Chief Shoukat Ali disagrees. Officials say they have photographs and a wedding dress to prove it.
“Our investigation shows this man likes these people more than women,” Ali said. “He admitted it. This is a psychological disease when men are attracted to men and not attracted to women.”
In Pakistan, homosexuality is a taboo subject and gay marriage is almost unheard of. [Link]
I could go on and on about human rights violation, privacy & blah blah blah, but it all just seems so futile. All I can do is pray. Pray that these men don’t suffer much. And are able to breathe free one sunny morning.
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If I lived in Pakistan, I would carry a gun. Not to protect myself against my fellow citizens, but to protect myself against the government.
This is completely fucked up. Thanks MJ for sharing this.
First of all, Rani is living as a woman and that too in Peshawar (need guts to do that!), so my guess is she comes as transgendered, right? The CNN video with its infinite wisdom portrays her as a “transvestite”- not surprising because CNN always looks for some sterotypical stories like “Her name was steven” or other bullshit that they think will bring in viewership without actually learning anything about the person they are documenting! Then the idiot police officer locks them up saying them are gay “men” with a “disease”. WTF is going on there? Oh I get it, may be these guys were busy cramming their heads in a madrasa without any human emotions or any sense of reality. May its time they get some ‘Q’education.Given it is Peshawar, I am even surprised they have a police force. Well, wait, weren’t they searching for Osama the last time someone spoke about that place? Oh no!, it is obviously not that important to catch a terrorist because people are having fun and going about by theur daily lives somewhere and as sadistic morons we need to barge in and take prisoners. I would be curious to ask that police oifficer, if in his high sense of right or wrong, he thinks killing “innocent civilians” is a “disease”?