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A whopping one hundred percent of the reserved seats tickets for women in the federal and provincial assemblies from all political parties have gone to women.
In conservative Pakistan, where women still don’t have their due status in society, such bits of good news also make up the great ecosystem that the Pakistani polity is.
“It isn’t just the major cities that this has happened, but also in third-tier urban settlements,” says Mosharraf Zaidi, a political commentator based in Islamabad.
“In fact, we have seen this remarkable phenomenon in the rural areas as well.”
“And the religious conservative Islamist parties have also given all of their reserved seat tickets to women,” he continued.
“This is a sign of a Pakistan that knows how to improve. This is a positive Pakistan. This is my Pakistan.”
This follows another such positive elections-related development, where all of the reserved seat tickets for minorities were awarded to members of Pakistan’s religious minorities.