Hamid Mir claims lawmakers being approached to legalise homosexuality.

Journalist and analyst Hamid Mir, in his column for a local media outlet, has claimed that students of a reputable educational institution have been contacting lawmakers in the National Assembly (NA) and Senate, urging them to move the house for the legalisation of homosexuality in the country.

'They [the youngsters] have been contacting different lawmakers and demanding, that like many other countries, homosexuality should be legalised in Pakistan,' the journalist quoted the senator as saying.

In his column, Mir claims that the students are in fact 'threatening' lawmakers who have refused to take up their cause.

He claimed that one lawmaker, ignoring a youth's request, advised them to focus on...