PESHAWAR: Leaders of transgender community in Pakistan have accused police of evicting their members from various districts of Peshawar in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Trangenders have complained about police's failure in acting against extortionists, kidnappers and the killers of their community members in the province, local media reported on Wednesday.
"Transgender persons have repeatedly been targeted with death threats and extortion calls, and those who refused to pay were killed." She stated, "We are not asking for charity or police ration packages; we are demanding our legitimate right to live."
Farzana Riaz accused police personnel and influential people of forcibly evicting members of trangender persons from Swabi, Nowshera, Charsadda and other areas of Peshawar. She said, "It seems as we are citizens of an enemy country, so we’re being treated like that."