A video of Dolphin Ayan, the most successful trans dancer from Peshawar, is doing the rounds where she is being stripped naked on camera and threatened with a gun, and being forced to dance.
We have literally written papers, done podcasts, book chapters, and spoken to media and officials about “Beela violence” and how organised it is.
We, ourselves, have presented data and identified hotspots - Mardan and Peshawar - and profiled the criminals involved.
We have done everything that we, as a broken and battered community, could do.
Ayyan was on the roads just a month ago organizing protests, and a year ago injured with bullets.
When does this end? What else is expected from a community literally on the receiving end of genocidal murders in Pakhtunkhwa to do?
I cannot travel in my own city today. I do not have mobile service or internet today. I am not safe as if I go outside, police might torture me or arrest me on ANY charges they see fit.
This is the worst oppression any nation can face in their own country.
What is your biggest fear?
- My biggest fear is attachment.
To get attached to temporary people, to wake up one day and find that they aren’t here anymore, to spend all my time on things that aren’t destined to be mine, To put all my energy and passion in goals and dreams that aren’t meant to be.
I fear that I spend too much time walking in the wrong destination.
A complete joke and mockery of constitution, judiciary, rule of law and democracy, probably this is gonna be the most controversial election in the history of pakistan.