Sindh to reserve 0.5% job quota for transgender persons

Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah says he wants to bring transgender people into the mainstream

KARACHI: The Sindh Cabinet on Wednesday agreed to reserve 0.5 per cent quota in government jobs for transgender persons.

“I want to bring transgender people into the mainstream,” said Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah during the cabinet meeting. “We want to make them an asset for our society.”

CM Murad congratulated the transgender community on behalf of the cabinet and advised them to improve their education.

Around 41,000 positions are vacant in different government departments across Sindh out of which 206 will be given to transgender people.

A spokesperson from the chief minister’s house stated that out of the 41,000 available jobs 16,000 positions will be filled this fiscal year. Rest of the positions will be filled in the period of next three years.



There are 10,418 transgender persons in Pakistan, according to the census conducted in 2017, and 24% of them reside in Sindh, primarily in Karachi.

In 2012, the transgender community in Pakistan was awarded some semblance of basic human rights with them being allowed to register as the third gender as voters and on their Computerised National Identity Cards (NIC) issued by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA).