Monday 6 July 2009

Pakistan's Chief Justice orders survey of "third sex"

Pakistan’s “third sex” is to be officially surveyed and registered under the direction of the Supreme Court.

In June 2009, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ordered the establishment of a commission to conduct the survey after a prominent jurist, Mohammed Aslam Khaki, filed a petition drawing attention to the plight of Pakistan’s several hundred thousand eunuchs.

Until the registration takes place, the number of eunuchs is unknown. Community leaders estimate it is at least 400,000.

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