ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Human Rights and Women Empowerment, Mushaal Hussain Mullick on Sunday said that the government of Pakistan was committed to provide all basic rights to the transgender community in the country at gross root level.
She expressed the remarks while addressing at the concluding ceremony at a workshop on wellness and communication development for non-binary and transgender persons in Islamabad. The Minister said that more than 0.3 million transgenders were registered with concerned government department and the government was devising plan to a mass campaign with the name of “Dukhtar” rest of the country for the protection, jobs and skilled programs for the community.
Govt is Committed to Provide All Basic Rights to Trans Community in Pakistan: Mushaal
She said that transgender persons are guaranteed all basic rights enshrined in the Constitution of Pakistan while the Act also recognizes transgender persons’ right to property inheritance, education, voting, healthcare, employment, assembly, access to public places and to hold public office.
Mushaal also underlined that trans community was playing its major role for the development of the nation and they were contributing at every level with their hard working.
She further said that the government of Pakistan would set up committees at district level for collecting the actual data of transgenders, to provide the health care, education, social security, jobs, vocational trainings, social media trainings, and other opportunities to make them a productive and economically independent citizens in the society.
