No, not Musharraf himself. The cross-dresser in question is Begum Nawazish Ali, aka Ali Saleem, pictured above. This New York Times article by Salman Masood, “When She Speaks, He’s Breaking All of Islam’s Taboos” (thanks to all who sent this in), illustrates the wildly diverging pressures within Pakistani society today, in which a man dressed … Continue reading If Pakistan loses Musharraf, Pakistan loses a cross-dresser