Pakistan is all set for its General Elections 2018 scheduled for July 25. But as the election campaign nears its end, a patterns has emerged wherein the faces of women candidates are being blanked out from the posters.
Recently, posters of a Member National Assembly (MNA) candidate Memoona Hamid contesting from PP-149 constituency of Pakistan came to light without her face on them.
Pakistan has had a woman prime minister despite that the country is still witnessing an election campaign where the posters have blanked out faces of female candidates.
Memoona Hamid another MNA contender for a seat in the parliament missing from her poster too.
Great representatives for women pic.twitter.com/2S9L3QatML— Reham Khan (@RehamKhan1) July 22, 2018
Social activist and journalist Reham Khan took to her Twitter handle to chastise the faceless picture of Hamid and said, “Memoona Hamid another MNA contender for a seat in the parliament missing from her poster too. Great representatives for women.”
The development evoked sharp response in the country, especially on social media.
Earlier, as per Geo TV, posters of a female candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Syeda Zahra Basit Bokhari were spotted where her husband’s face was used in lieu of her’s.
Justifying the act, Bokhari’s campaign manager said that the contender is a ‘Syed’ and ‘Syed women do not publicise their pictures’.
As per the Gulf News, in the forthcoming July 25 election, over 10 million women, above 18 years of age, will possibly miss out on their right to vote.
Referring to the statics of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), the national daily reported that out of 97 million registered voters, only 43 million are women, while 55.6 million are male voters.
According to the report, a major part of the women population in the country doesn’t possess valid Computerised National Identity Cards (CNIC), which is essential for casting votes.
General Elections 2018 will be historical because this will be the second successive smooth transition of power from a democratically elected government to another elected government through elections.
However, no Prime Minister in Pakistan has been able to complete a full 5-year term in office till date.
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