جیک پاٹ کا بڑا انعام,سلاٹ گیمز کے صارف کے جائزے,سلاٹ ٹورنامنٹ اور مقابلے,سلاٹ مشین اینڈرائیڈ ایپسFederal Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar on Thursday rejected the criticism on tran
sgender bill and negated the misconception that the law was repugnant to Islamic injunctions.
Addressing a press conference alongside Adviser to PM for Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Qamar Zaman Kaira, Tarar clarified that the bill was passed by the Senate and National Assembly in the presence of religious and political leaders. He said that after reach
ing the age of 18 years, tran
sgender persons could declare their genders on their identity cards.
He said that the Tran
sgender Act was passed in 2018 while Jamaat-e-Islami Senator Mushtaq Ahmed brought amendments in parliament to prevent misuse of this law and the government supported these amendments.
The entire process of the Tran
sgender Law included the opinion of the Council of Islamic Ideology, he added. He said that the government would accept the decision of the Shariah court regard
ing this matter and the guidance of the Shariah court was also needed regard
ing the medical of the tran
sgender. The rights of the tran
sgender had been protected by this law, he added.
The Minister said that there was always a chance o
f weakness or misuse of it whenever a law was passed. He said that complaints started coming after two years on a provision that there was a possibility that sections 3 and 4 could be misused. He said that according to the aforementioned sections, after reach
ing the age of 18 years, tran
sgender persons could declare their genders on their identity cards.
He said that it should be suitably amended and made subject to the decision of the Medical Board. This matter was still under cons
ideration in the Parliament and two petitions were filed in the Federal Sharia Court. But if the amendment was necessary, it should be done through the Parliament, he added.
He said that there were also two provisions regarding recognition and identity. But, the matter would only be changed after the verdict of the shariah court, he added. He said that the prime responsibility of the shariah court was to see whether a law was against the shariah and the principles of Islam. The government had submitted its responses on the pleas as well, he added.
He said that some friends twisted this matter and claimed that the law was encouraging homosexuality. It was also being perceived that entire law was completely negative, he added.
Tarar said that the law talked about discrimination, sexual harassment,
the right to inheritance,
the right to education,
the right to health, and
the right to employment for tran
sgender persons.
He said that
the reason for interacting with media today was that this was not about those arguments, this was about Constitution, law, shariah and human rights. He requested media to spread this message further. “I expect the Pakistani people to understand that tran
sgender persons were Pakistanis, they were a part of the society. He said that the provisions of the law, starting off with the definition of a tran
sgender person and contend
ing that the law nowhere stated that any person could be a tran
sgender themselves.