29 December 2022 :

A district and sessions judge in Charsadda on 23 December 2022 convicted a man for killing a transgender person last year and awarded him death sentence with a fine of Rs1 million.
Judge Sofia Waqar Khattak pronounced that the evidence on record connected the accused, Shah Faisal, with commission of the offence.
The court ruled that in case of non-payment of fine, the convict would undergo additional six months imprisonment.
Faisal, a resident of Paindakhel area, had killed transgender individual, namely Javed alias Gulalai, after exchanging hot words with him on 23 October 2021.
The complainant in the case was Akhter Hussain, a brother of the deceased.
District public prosecutor Javed Ali Mohmand and public prosecutor Mohammadullah Khan appeared before the court and contended that the police had arrested the accused after the occurrence and the weapon used in the offence was also recovered from him.