Eight Pakistan police officers and special rangers were being held hostage Sunday by supporters of a radical Islamist party, officials said, after days of violent anti-France protests. Rioting has rocked the country for the last week since the leader of the now-banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) was detained in the second […]
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A Covid-19 Surge and Conspiracy Theories Roil Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan — Iqbal Shaheen, a taxi driver, drove his sick father to this city’s three main hospitals. All of their intensive care beds and ventilators were occupied. Mr. Shaheen was told there might be room at a private hospital, for $625 a day, far above what his earnings of […]
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Transgender Christians establish a church of their own in Pakistan
There is a long history of gender nonconformity in the East, steeped in both culture and religion. But there is also little to no legal protection and social acceptance for some transgender communities, including those that were colonized by the West. In Pakistan, a group of transgender Christians have formed […]
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Trolls flood social media in Pakistan amid virus lockdown
ISLAMABAD (AP) — It was a music video meant to depict a young bride’s joy: Actress Saba Qamar, in a flowing white wedding gown with a golden hem, was twirled by the singer playing her groom in front of the mosaics of a 17th-century mosque in Pakistan’s eastern city of […]