- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (up to life in prison as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Gender identity only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Gender identity only
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Azad Kashmir is illegal (up to life in prison as punishment).
The Zina provisions of the Hudood Ordinance (1979), criminalize all sexual conduct outside of marriage with the death penalty. However, there are no known cases of these provisions being used against gay people.
In addition, the enforcement of sentences against homosexuals is unenforced since 1985
Same-sex marriage in Azad Kashmir is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Azad Kashmir is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Azad Kashmir is legal, no restrictions.
In 2023, the Lahore High Court upheld this act in "Nayyab Ali v. Federation of Pakistan," overturning the Shariat ruling.
Gender-affirming care in Azad Kashmir is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Azad Kashmir is recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Azad Kashmir is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Azad Kashmir is gender identity only.
LGBT housing discrimination in Azad Kashmir is gender identity only.
Same-sex adoption in Azad Kashmir is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Azad Kashmir is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Azad Kashmir is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Azad Kashmir is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Azad Kashmir is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Azad Kashmir is n/a.