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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.)