Back to>> Blog>> Tenure Party Seat Description 2018 - 2023 PTI Women Reserved Political Career Miss Ayesha is part of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) who was elected as an MPA in 2018 General Elections. She holds a B.Sc degree.
One field where the women’s movement has succeeded in Pakistan to a large extent is women’s political participation. Ayesha Khan’s perceptive book, ‘The Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy’ (2018), deals with the larger woman question; however, we are going to focus on the women’s political participation aspects of it in order to have a focused debate. The…
A visible number of the transgender community is to be seen in Pakistan. They come from all backgrounds of society, from a teenage kid to a 70-year-old person. They are a diverse community, representing all racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as faith. Pakistan’s population of transgender people recorded in the sixth population and housing census in 2017 was 10,418.…
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The Election Act (2017) forbidsany effort to hinder female participation in elections, nor as a voter or a candidate. The act also requires political parties to have a minimum of five percent of female candidates contesting in general elections for both national and provincial assemblies. In the 2018 elections, all mainstream national parties remained close to the minimum percentage, while…
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Women’s empowerment is a complex and evolving concept that is constantly being defined and re-defined. It is said to be about women’s increased access to material resources such as land, money, credit and income, availability of decent employment opportunities that involve good working conditions, access to power through representation in political and decision- making bodies, the freedom to make choices…