By Sajjad HussainIslamabad, Aug 26 (PTI) Pakistan has over 10,000 transgender population, with 64.4 per cent of them living in the countrys largest Punjab province, according to provisional census data. The report shows that the total population of transgender people is 10,418, with 64.4 per cent or 6,709 living in Punjab province. Another 2,527 or 24 per cent are in Sindh while Khyber (KP) Pakhtunkhwa has 913 and Balochistan has 109 transgender people. In the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), the population of transgender people is 27 and in Islamabad 133. Earlier, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) included separate codes for disabled and transgender people in the census on the order of the Supreme Court.

Source: India Today August 26, 2017 08:15 UTC