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KP Govt to issue Sehat Insaf Cards to transgenders

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PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Shaukat Yousafzai has said the provincial government would issue Sehat Insaf Cards to transgender to give them access to best health facilities.
Talking to media here, he said the government was taking measures to give respectable status to transgender in the society and in order to provide the employment opportunities, vocational training would be provided to them.
He deplored that past provincial governments totally ignored the rights of the transgender community and did not take any step for their welfare. He said PTI government, unlike past governments, would provide opportunities to transgender to lead a respectable.
The government would provide soft loans on easy installments to them to start their own business besides provision of an educational facility to become a useful citizen of the country.

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.