Marvia Malik, the nation’s first transgender news anchor, escaped a shooting outside her Cantt neighborhood home on Thursday night.
In her statement to the police, Malik stated that two men were firing at her while she was leaving a pharmacy.
She claimed that as a result of speaking out for the transgender community, she had been receiving threatening phone calls and text messages from unknown callers.
Malik claimed that she relocated to Islamabad and Multan after leaving Lahore out of fear for her life. She had recently traveled back to Lahore for surgery. She claimed the assassination attempt was “much influenced” by her campaigning.