New Delhi: A Pakistani TV information anchor Marvia Malik was targetted in a gun assault in Lahore on Thursday (February 23), as per a number of stories by Pakistan media. She is the primary transgender information anchor within the nation and escaped an alleged assassination bid on Thursday. Later, on Friday, a case was registered in opposition to the unknown assailants for trying to shoot Malik when she was returning to her residence within the Lahore Cantonment space at evening.
She was attacked by two unidentified gunmen in response to Geo Information. Marvia informed the police that individuals had been sending her dying threats after she shared her opinion on the Transgender Individuals (Safety of Rights) Act 2018. To guard herself, Malik has left her Lahore dwelling and has moved elsewhere.
Information anchor Marvia Malik has simply survived a gun assault. That is the direct consequence of the hate speech & incendiary phrases that the likes of Maria B, Senator Mushtaq or Youth Membership use in opposition to the trans neighborhood. Your phrases can value folks’s lives. Say NO to transphobia pic.twitter.com/PKvDfhaiGg
— Muneeb Qadir (@muneebqadirmmq) February 24, 2023
In September of final yr, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) acknowledged that the Transgender Individuals Act was not appropriate with Islamic ideas, as sure provisions contradicted Shariah legislation. In keeping with Geo Information, the CII cautioned that the legislation may give rise to recent societal points and urged the federal government to arrange a committee comprising CII members, spiritual students, authorized consultants, and medical professionals to evaluation the laws associated to the transgender neighborhood.
The Transgender Individuals (Safety of Rights) Act offered transgender people in Pakistan with the liberty to pick out and alter their gender id as they personally perceived it, and permitted them to replace their gender data on official paperwork issued by the federal government.
Marvia Malik is a information anchor in Pakistan who studied journalism as a part of her increased training. She had labored within the trend business earlier than becoming a member of the media enterprise, reported Geo Information. As a transperson herself, she has advocated for transgender folks within the nation.
