ISLAMABAD: The electoral rolls of Election Commission of Pakistan indicated that only 42.42 million women are registered to voters lists till September 2017 ignoring 12.17 million eligible women which are yet to be included.
According to the official data, a total of 97.01 million citizens are registered as voters including 54.59 million men and 42.42 million women voters.
The figures shows that men comprise 56.27 percent of the current lists while women contribute only 43.7 percent, official sources told APP.
They informed that in General Elections (GE) 2008, 35.606 million women were registered in electoral lists while in GE 2013, 37.636 million women voters were enrolled, followed by 40.708 million in 2016 and 42.42 million in 2017.
They further informed that the latest figures of 2017 showed that 24.518 million women are registered in Punjab, followed by 9.199 million in Sindh, o.6 million in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1.5 million in Balochistan, 0.8 million in FATA and 0.3 million in Islamabad Capital Territory.
The official data further revealed that in 2013 voters electoral rolls, 1.5 million new voters were registered in Punjab after 2008, 0.91 million in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 0.58 million in Balochistan, 0.11 million in Sindh and 0.17 million in FATA.
Likewise, in the new voters lists till 2017, 2.94 million new women were registered in Punjab, 0.75 million in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 0.7 million in Sindh, 0.21 million in FATA and 0.14 million in Balochistan during this time span.
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