"It was past midnight but Zehrish Khanzadi and Bindiya Rana were still up, drinking tea, when the doorbell rang. Within seconds of Rana unlocking the door remotely from the kitchen, three shots rang out. The men fled and she narrowly escaped all three bullets, Khanzadi says of her colleague and housemate. Both trans women work for the Gender Alliance Interactive (GIA), an organisation that advocates for transgender rights, Rapa as its head and Khanzadi as a rights activist."
"By morning, they had filed a formal police complaint against the unknown assailants. As an activist Khanzadi is acutely aware of the risks that trans communities in Pakistan face but she never expected to become a victim herself in the safety of her own home in Karachi. Those who protect others are now under attack, she says. Bindiya Rana was attacked at home; she avoided injury, the bullets striking this cabinet instead."
Zehrish Khanzadi and Bindiya Rana were shot at inside their Karachi home; Rana narrowly escaped injury and they filed a police complaint. Both are trans women employed by the Gender Alliance Interactive (GIA), Rapa as head and Khanzadi as a rights activist. Nadira, an HIV-positive trans woman, survived an eight-inch knife wound after being stabbed at Karachi's Sea View beach when she rejected a man's advances; the wound required 35 stitches and blood transfusions. Three trans women were shot at close range while begging; alleged killers were arrested and admitted shooting after the women resisted giving money. GIA has documented 55 killings in Sindh province between 2022 and September.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]