by ADAM B. ELLICK
Bano, 35, is not a social worker, but an aggressive lesbian about to pounce on the “sumptuous spread” of innocent lower-class schoolgirls. Her tools of seduction are simple enough: beauty, money and clout. Still, she says frankly, “it’s hard to pick just one.”
On this day, her pick is a teenager with a complexion resembling “a white flower smudged with saffron.” Bano woos the girl back to her mansion, where they engage in two taboos in Islamic Pakistan: a shot of brandy and gay sex.
Bano’s woman hunts are the stuff of Urdu fiction — fiction once shockingly popular in mainstream Pakistan, and eventually banned. Stories like the one about Bano were silently collecting dust until earlier this year, when a vivacious British-born Pakistani, Faiza S. Khan, stumbled upon them in disbelief.
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