[mathprof]

Akhtar Soomro for The New York Times

On Pakistani television, Ali Saleem, 28, portrays Begum Nawazish Ali, a flirty, teasing widow, to achieve both political and personal goals.

[VeniVidiVici]

Hmmmmm.

[thiscouldbemoreconfusing]

When Mr. Saleem takes to the airwaves, he is Begum Nawazish Ali, a coquettish widow who interviews Pakistan’s glitterati and some of its top politicians.

Could his day job be that of US Congressman from Massachusetts fourth?

[COBOL2Java]

Unless Mr. Saleem is a woman, disguised as a man, pretending to be a woman...

[cripplecreek]

he thinks Pakistan has always been more open than outsiders believed.

At least that's what it's trying to convince the rest of us is the case.

[Popocatapetl]

They easier explanation is that his schtick is too complex for their pea-brains to figure out. Were he to use just one simple gimmick, he would be roundly damned; but he overwhelms them with so many quirky violations that they get caught up in the minutiae of what he is doing.

As an aside, homosexuals in many Moslem countries are now at the forefront of pushing the social boundaries, even threatening to cause a collapse of Sharia Law itself, and doing it craftily. For example, in Egypt, a large number of homosexuals will have a big party on a houseboat. When it is raided, they will act offended in that the police seem to be implying that they should have women there. And that, in turn, would be terribly immoral.

So no matter what we think of homosexuals here, there, they seem to be doing some good for everybody, especially women.

[wireman]

It's a MAN, baby!!!

Oh behave!

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

[jordan8]

This isn't that f****** Sacha Cohen dude again, is it?