[1][2] Evidence from literary works and artworks relating to Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Islam suggest that non-heterosexual sex was looked down upon or forbidden since at least 250 B.C.
[8] During the Mughal Empire, a number of the pre-existing Delhi Sultanate laws were combined into the Fatawa-e-Alamgiri, mandating several types of punishments for homosexuality.
[10][11][12][13][14][15] The Colonial British government criminalized lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activities in India under section 377 of the Indian Penal code of 1860.
The punishment for homosexual activities increased to life imprisonment or even death by stoning as a result of the Sharia Law added to Pakistan Penal Code.
[18] There was some support for LGBTQ identities in major cities like Lahore and Karachi; there were secret gay parties during the regime of General Pervez Musharraf.
People in Pakistan who consider themselves to be a part of the LGBT community do not express their sexuality in public due to bigotry and fear of being physically attacked.
Religious clerics would declare transgender people haraam (sinful), unnatural, inhuman and aliens and call upon the society to have no connections or interactions with them.
Muhammad Ejaz, a paramedic in Lahore, entered the homes of three men he met on the gay social networking site, Manjam, and killed them.
After a long period of public protests and appeals, in 2009, the Supreme Court of Pakistan legally recognized transgender people as a third gender and promised them a Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC).