E/en at the best of times it would have seemed unusual for America's embassy in Islamabad to organise its recent gathering for "gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gender" people. Given the grim state of bilateral relations, the meeting looked downright provocative. Some in Pakistan's religiously conservative society promptly accused America of conspiring to attack them by spreading outrageously liberal sexual views. One Islamic political party called it "cultural terrorism".
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