Imran promises complete protection to transgenders.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan distributed on Monday the Sehat Insaf Cards among transgender persons, promising complete protection to the community. The prime minister distributed these health cards during a ceremony in Islamabad. Through these cards, transgender persons would get free-of-charge medical coverage. Health cards to transgender persons would also be distributed in other cities. Earlier this year in May, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had distributed health cards to them in an attempt to address their health problems. Addressing the ceremony, PM Khan said his government covered all the transgender persons with the help of data obtained from the National Database and Registration Authority.

'It means that our government is adopting you,' he told the transgender persons among the...

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