MIRPURKHAS: The Digri civil judge and judicial magistrate on Sunday allowed a 12-year-old girl, who was wedded to a 47-year-old man on the orders of a jirga three days ago, to go with her parents. He also remanded the nikah ...
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The provisional results of the sixth census state that there are over 10,000 transgender people across Pakistan, but the community claims the actual number to be about 10 times more. For the first time in the country’s history, the transgender ...
Read More »Court sends ex-MNA on two-day remand
Rawalpindi – A lower court has granted two-day physical remand of a former MP from Chakwal and his driver allegedly involved in confining a girl and contracting marriage with her forcibly, police sources informed on Saturday. Judicial Magistrate Qasim Rasool ...
Read More »Census shows over 10,000 transgender population in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Punjab has 64.4 per cent of the country’s transgender population with 6,709 people registered in the category, reveals the census data released on Friday. The country’s total population of transgender people reported in the sixth Population and Housing Census is ...
Read More »Instead of students, buffaloes found in girls’ school
DADU: The district and sessions judge of Dadu issued notices to three education officers on Thursday for turning the primary girls’ school of Kheero Panhwar into a cattle pen. Sessions Judge Ashok Kumar issued notices to district primary education officer ...
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