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First gay 'marriage' in Pakistan

damien · 2005-10-07 12:34:46

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4313210.stm Sounds like one of those awful arranged marriages. Almost the same as slavery. Unless the youngfella was consenting.

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07-10-2005 1:34pm

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4313210.stm

A gay couple have become the first to get "married" in Pakistan, according to reports from the region. Witnesses said a 42-year-old Afghan refugee held a marriage ceremony with a local tribesman of 16 in the remote Khyber region bordering Afghanistan.

Gay marriage is not legal in conservative Muslim Pakistan. On hearing of the wedding, a tribal council told the pair to leave the area or be killed for breaking religious and tribal "values and ethics".

A local Urdu-language newspaper said the elder man, named as Liaquat Ali, had taken a local boy called Markeen as "his male bride". The paper said the boy's impoverished parents accepted 40,000 rupees (£380) for their son's hand in marriage. "The marriage was held amid usual pomp and show associated with a tribal wedding," it said.

Sounds like one of those awful arranged marriages. Almost the same as slavery. Unless the youngfella was consenting.

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