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Unregistered, unheard: elections and transgender exclusion

PESHAWAR: The busy streets outside Iqbal Plaza on Dalazak Road in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, witness a daily spectacle. Scores of men, predominantly young, gather on the footpaths, on their motorbikes, and in their parked cars. At the plaza's entrance, transgender individuals, dressed in female attire and heavy makeup, beckon the onlookers. This carnivalesque scene is […]

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