New 'rickshaw' hits the roads to beat male pests

Fed up with being groped and harassed by male auto-rickshaw drivers, a Pakistani environmentalist has hit back.

She has launched a service exclusively for female passengers and drivers in her home city of Lahore, with just one rickshaw on the road so far.

Zar Aslam, president of Pakistan's nonprofit Environment Protection Fund, said she once narrowly escaped being kidnapped by a rickshaw driver when she was a student.