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News Anchor And Transgender Activist Marvia Malik Survives Gunshot

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The first transgender news anchor in Pakistan, Marvia Malik, was shot outside her residence in Lahore Cantonment. She reports that two assailants started shooting as she was walking back from a pharmacy. She was traumatised even though Marvia Malik survives gunshot attack.

Marvia Malik Survives Gunshot Attack

Malik disclosed in her police statement that she had been receiving threats from unidentified callers. She received these threats as a result of her outspoken advocacy for transgender rights in Pakistan. Due to her activism, many of her opponents wanted to silence her.

Malik had already gone to Islamabad or Multan after leaving Lahore out of fear for her life. She had travelled back to Lahore for surgery and thinks that the murder attempt was greatly influenced by her activity.

Who is Marvia Malik?

News Anchor And Transgender Activist Marvia Malik Survives Gunshot
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Marvia Malik, who was bullied at school and later developed a rift with her family, was born in Lahore in 1997. She wanted to be a journalist or a lawyer. She worked as a makeup artist to pay for her graduate education and earned a mass media degree from Punjab University.

She made headlines when, in March 2018, she was the first openly transgender person to hold the position of news anchor on a Pakistani news programme for Kohenoor News. Malik has also worked as a model in the past and walked the Pakistan Fashion Design Council catwalk. Through her work, she hopes to alter how transgender individuals are perceived in society.

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