Gender-based segregation at voting booths among measures in bill to encourage more Pakistani women voters

A Senate committee on Monday approved an important bill seeking gender-based segregation of polled votes and re-election in constituencies where women’s turnout remains less than 10 per cent. The Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 2016, seeking an amendment to the Representation of the People Act (ROPA), 1976, introduced in the house by Sherry Rehman of…

Sub-Committee of the Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs Monday approved an amendment in Representation of People Act according to which preventing women from casting vote would be considered a corrupt practice. The committee unanimously proposed amendment in section 78-A-2 of Representation of People Act and declared that ‘if someone stops women from vote or manages to…