New beginning
, May 9, 2013
Bindia Rana, a transgender independent candidate for the upcoming elections, smiles during a pre-election analysis programme at the studio of a local television channel in Karachi. Rana, 45, and a handful of others are the first of Pakistan's transgender "hijra" community - which includes transsexuals, transvestites and others - to register as candidates Pakistan's elections on May 11. She is a candidate for the Sindh provincial assembly from one of the city's constituencies. - Reuters/Insiya Syed