Inside Gay Pakistan

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Re: Inside Gay Pakistan

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I once worked with an Afghan woman who had a very low opinion of Pakistanis because of her experience as a wealthy refugee going to a girls boarding school in Peshawar… she was bullied for not being willing to engage in homosexual behavior with the other girls. She mentioned that although she knew on a logical level that it wasn’t true, emotionally she’s felt that Pakistan is a nation of perverts after that that experience!

I wonder if she had something to say about blatant contempt for women in her native country, Afghanistan. Yes, Pak is no Sweden either but I am glad to hear that even in conservative cities, there are boarding schools for girls in Pak. And I am proud of the fact that Pakistanis were the ones to elect the first Muslim female head of state. Can we say the same about Afghans? No doubt, things are finally getting better of late in Afghanistan–at least, thankfully, girls can now go to schools there–and women in Pak and indeed in much of South Asia face a LOT of problems and challenges too, but it seems like there is still a long way to before Afghans catch up with women’s rights, even by South Asian standards.