Pakistan: Would-be ‘gay couple’ remanded in police custody

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE

The court also sent 43 other people, among them 16 eunuchs, on judicial remand to the central prison Peshawar. They were picked up from a “gay marriage ceremony”, according to police. The Faqirabad police produced 50-year old Malik Iqbal and his 19-year old would-be partner Kashif, alias Rani, in the court of Judicial Magistrate Syed Shaukatullah Jan.

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(Submitted by Robin Khundkar. Another reader’s comments: “Age difference. Kalashnikov rifle. The curious but friendly crowd in the picture. The religion-ambiguous name Rani. I just hope a mob does not attack their home. Unlikely, I may add. God knows how many such couples already live happily with the consent of their neighbors. There were a few in Barabanki (in Uttar Pradesh, India) when I was growing up, and they were none the worse for it.)