Re: 3 years in jail for barring women from local polls: Election Commission
1,150 women elected unopposed in NWFP
PESHAWAR: A total of 1,150 women candidates have been elected unopposed in both phases of the local government elections to be held in the NWFP on August 18 and 25, a Provincial Election Commission (PEC) official said on Wednesday. The official said that five women candidates are contesting for nazim and naib nazim posts in the NWFP, in Tank, Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu districts. The women who were returned unopposed were standing for seats in union councils in Peshawar, Nowshera, Charssada, Mardan, Swabi, Kohat, Karak, Haripur, Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, Tank and Buner districts. The PEC official said that 272 women had been elected unopposed on general Muslim seats and 433 on seats reserved for farmers/peasants in the first phase of the local polls. He said 446 women had been elected unopposed in the second phase of the polls, 176 on general Muslim seats and 176 on farmer/peasant seats.
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