A leading Pakistani daily has described as "perfectly legitimate" a demand that elections be scrapped in those polling stations where no woman votes.
An editorial in the Dawn Wednesday said that in the 2008 general elections, according to Election Commission data, "over 560 female polling stations - nearly 480 of them in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - saw a zero percent turnout".
Over 580,000 women were registered at these stations.
The National Commission on the Status of Women and the Free and Fair Election Network has demanded that the by-election results from the polling stations concerned - and therefore the constituencies in which they are located - be scrapped.
Read the complete story at Two Circles, published 29 February 2012.
A leading Pakistani daily has described as "perfectly legitimate" a demand that elections be scrapped in those polling stations where no woman votes.
An editorial in the Dawn Wednesday said that in the 2008 general elections, according to Election Commission data, "over 560 female polling stations - nearly 480 of them in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - saw a zero percent turnout".
Over 580,000 women were registered at these stations.
The National Commission on the Status of Women and the Free and Fair Election Network has demanded that the by-election results from the polling stations concerned - and therefore the constituencies in which they are located - be scrapped.
Read the complete story at Two Circles, published 29 February 2012.