PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)is going to start the registration of transgender personsinPeshawar next week with the cooperation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Social Welfare Department, Nadra and NGO Da Hawa Loor.

The decision was taken here on Thursday during a meeting held in the office of the provincial election commissioner with director local government elections Zulfikar Ahmad in the chair.

Assistant director (social inclusion) Aun Ahmad Naqvi, assistant director Nadra and focal person Shahid Khan and Ms Mehnaz of the social welfare department attended the meeting where Ms Khurshid and Ayesha represented Da Hawa Loor.

It was decided that in the first phase the registration of transgender persons would begin in the office of Social Welfare Department, Peshawar, as a pilot project from next week.

Zulfikar Ahmad stressed the need for conducting a special awareness campaign regarding registration of the community. APP