Pakistan’s transgender women protest against rising tide of violence

Gudiya, 23, holds a poster at the recent vigil. Photograph: Shah Meer/The Guardian

Mano had gone to meet her boyfriend at a printing press in Peshawar’s Qissa Khwani bazaar to get back some money he had borrowed.

“But he refused to pay,” her friend Farzana Riaz said. “Mano insisted and refused to leave without money. When Mano kept resisting, her boyfriend Sanaullah shot her.”