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But amid massive backlash, he was sent for mental treatment, according to a Telegraph report. His application for the gay club had earlier gone viral on social media on 9 May. ThePrint reached out to the hospital in Dadar, where Giani had been admitted, confirmed the news but refused to comment any further. They said that Giani was picked up by unidentified men in plain clothes and taken to a mental health facility , where he was wrongly diagnosed and subjected to harsh electroconvulsive treatments.

ISLAMABAD: The LGBTQ community in Pakistan has been advocating for acceptance and rights despite facing challenges amid conservative social attitudes and legal restrictions, and now the office of the Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad has been contacted for a gay club. The petition filed by Preetum Giani seeks a safe space for all gay people with strict laws against any sexual activity at the club. The development sparked fresh debate online, as the KP region is known for its conservative tradition. Electricity tariff slab for non-protected users may move to units Will Imran Khan be released from jail after bail in May 9 cases?

The application submitted to the Deputy Commissioner of Abbottabad went viral, leading to widespread condemnation from local leaders and religious organizations. Groups such as Pakistan Awami Tehreek PAT and Jamiat Ulema Islam JUI have publicly denounced the idea of a gay club in Abbottabad. The backlash was swift and severe, reflecting the deep-seated cultural and religious opposition to homosexuality in Pakistan. Following the uproar, local authorities transferred the man to Sarhad Hospital for Psychiatric Diseases in Peshawar.

Islamabad : In a bizarre piece of news, a Pakistani man was sent to a mental hospital by local authorities for trying to open the country's first gay nightclub, according to a report by the UK-based Telegraph. The man had filed an application to set up the club in Abbottabad, a conservative city in northern Pakistan where notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden was found and killed. The man claimed the club was to be a "great convenience and resource for many homosexual, bisexual and even some heterosexual people residing in Abbottabad in particular, and in other parts of the country in general" in his application to the deputy commissioner of Abbottabad. However, gay sex is illegal in Pakistan and is punishable by two years in prison.