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QUETTA: A 15-member committee has been formed under Chief Secretary Balochistan Akhtar Nazir Ahmed to ensure implementation on the transgender rights law. According to a statement issued on Wednesday, the committee would conduct a survey of transgender persons in the province and ...

PESHAWAR: After the Faqirabad precinct last week asked people who are transgender to leave the remits of the station, the Mattani police have now imposed a ban on all musical programmes and people who are transgender within his jurisdiction, local residents ...

LAHORE: Leaders of rights organisations have said the transgender community was experiencing social exclusion in Pakistan that resultantly translates into increased vulnerability and limited social and economic advancement and urged the government to implement laws on women protection. These views were ...

PESHAWAR: Around 350 people who are transgender living in apartment complexes along Dalazak Road have been asked by their landlords to vacate the following pressure from a ‘senior police officer’ of the locality. As a result, people who are transgender staged ...

ISLAMABAD  : The Supreme Court on Monday praised efforts by the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP) and said Pakistan is one of the first countries to have developed a policy for the betterment of transgender persons. “The law and justice commission has ...