Scoop.co.nz – Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission
When the petition for looking into the plight of Khawja Saras1 (transsexual / transvestite) was filed at the supreme court of Pakistan, and reported in some of the more sensational Urdu print media, it was seen as yet another petition that may not have any substantial outcome, but it caught everyone by surprise when the, apex court actually issued a directive to the four provincial social welfare departments to research into all the matters that somehow relegated this one population into a non entity.
Once the directive was out, I in my capacity of someone who has been closely working in partnership with the community for past decade or more thought it necessary to understand the directive. Since, I was not a party to this matter meaning, neither did I file the petition and nor the directive had aggrieved me in any manner, therefore I could not legally get the copy of the directive / decision from the court.