{"id":73696,"date":"2018-07-26T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73696"},"modified":"2022-12-13T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T08:45:06","slug":"thousands-of-transgenders-could-not-cast-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73696","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of transgenders  could not  cast vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE, July 26 (TNS): Thousands of transgenders voters could not exercise their right to vote in Wednesday\u2019s general elections due to lack of proper sex identification in the Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs), according to a rights activist.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s 2017 national census put the number of transgender persons at 10,418, a number that has been widely disputed by members of the community.<\/p>\n<p>But the identity cards, with the category of Gender X, were issued only to 127 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has a large number of transgender people, who are old enough to cast vote, but only 913 were registered in the 2017 census,\u201d said Blue Veins Programme Coordinator Qamar Naseem.<br \/>buy amoxil online <a href=\"https:\/\/nouvita.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/fing\/inc\/php\/amoxil.html\">https:\/\/nouvita.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/fing\/inc\/php\/amoxil.html<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<br \/> In June 2018, she added, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar had ordered to provide the community with free-of-cost CNICs. She also highlighted the social taboos, which forced her community members to keep away from the polling stations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE, July 26 (TNS): Thousands of transgenders voters could not exercise their right to vote in Wednesday\u2019s general elections due to lack of proper sex identification in the Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs), according to a rights activist. The country\u2019s 2017 national census put the number of transgender persons at 10,418, a number that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110088,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73696\/revisions\/110088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}