Ali Saleem (Urdu: علی سلیم) is a Pakistani television host for current affairs television program in Pakistan on the Aaj TV network. Ali cross dresses as a woman and asks his prominent guests provocative questions. Ali wears a silk sari, women's dress, for Late Night Show With Begum Nawazish Ali. Saleem Ali, 27 years old, is bisexual, his father is retired colonel in Pakistan Army and his mother, a former government official.
Childhood
"Even as a child he used to fantasise about growing up to be a woman," he admits. "My friends all said that I am like a 60-year old woman. I am a woman in a man's body." Born biologically male, he frequently prayed to God to make him a girl. He is Transexual, as he told in one of the interview to BBC representative Saira Khan in "BBC Saira Khan's Pakistan Adventure" in 2007.
External links
- Washington Post contributor Amar Bakshi interviews Begum Nawazish Ali in Pakistan
- Interview - Ali Saleem
- How Pakistan's 'Dame Edna' has upset Musharraf
Interview - Ali Saleem by Mamun M. Adil for Images http://www.dawn.com/weekly/images/archive/070624/images2.htm
