Notwithstanding its ban on Indian films, the Pakistan government plans to cash in on the Aishwarya Rai’s tremendous popularity here by inviting her to kick-start the next round of the country’s polio immunisation campaign. Federal Health Minister Mohammad Nasir Khan said the event would boost confidence-building efforts between the two countries.
Septuagenarian former New Zealand soldier to have sex change
AUCKLAND:
A 73-year-old former New Zealand soldier is to undergo a sex change, and the government has agreed to pick up the NZ$30,000 cost of the operation, a report said. Transsexual Vicki Harvey, who drove centurion tanks in the course of her 20 years in the New Zealand Army, was part of a lobbying campaign that resulted in the government agreeing last year to fund a few ‘‘gender reassignment’’ operations. — Agencies