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Islamabad: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has allocated two rooms in a Medical Ward for transgender patients, according to Shireen Mazari. The Minister for Human Rights said in a Twitter post on Monday that the step has been taken ...

A transgender person allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in Mauripur on Saturday. SHO Sahib Dad said the deceased, who was identified as 30-year-old Sajid alias Sonia, lived alone in a rented house. Police believed that ...

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 ...