KARACHI, Pakistan — Sabiho Bano, a wealthy Pakistani socialite with a penchant for martial arts, crawls out of her Mercedes and hops onto a crummy public bus picking up schoolgirls across this sprawl of a city.
Bano, 35, is not a social worker, but an aggressive lesbian about to pounce on the “sumptuous spread” of innocent lower-class schoolgirls. Her tools of seduction are simple enough: beauty, money and clout. Still, she says frankly, “it’s hard to pick just one.”
On this day, her pick is a teenager with a complexion resembling “a white flower smudged with saffron.” Bano woos the girl back to her mansion, where they engage in two taboos in Islamic Pakistan ...
via nytimes
Interestingly Ellick (resident NYT correspondent) in Pakistan, seems to have a special interest in the risque / erotique (he hunted down some S&M leather goods manufacturers in Pakistan, last I heard from him). He could, of course have equally focussed on the other novelties of the literary journal... (just saying)
I have a feeling he is enjoying his stay in Pakistan immensely :)