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Pakistani student Laiba Rashid, 22, hopes her life will change once she learns how to drive a motorcycle after undergoing a training programme that teaches women how to operate two-wheelers in the ...
In 2016, a woman named Aneeqa Ali was harassed and injured while riding her bicycle out in Lahore, Pakistan. [8] In response to this incident and as an act of condemnation and solidarity, Girls at Dhabas organized a bike rally (which became an annual event) Girls on Bikes aimed at encouraging women to embrace cycling and two-wheeler ...
Seventy (70) women politicians including nine on general seats, sixty on reserved women seats and one on non-Muslim seat were elected as the members of the 14th National Assembly [32] that served for the complete term of five years i.e. 2013-2018. [33] Emblem of Senate of Pakistan
She was indirectly elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) on reserved seats for women from Punjab in 2013 Pakistani general election. [2] [3] On 13 May 2024, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) suspended her membership as a member of the National Assembly. [4]
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Pakistani women were granted the suffrage in 1947, [24] and they were reaffirmed the right to vote in national elections in 1956 under the interim Constitution. [25] The provision of reservation of seats for women in the Parliament existed throughout the constitutional history of Pakistan from 1956 to 1973.
She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on a seat reserved for women from Sindh in the 2002 Pakistani general election. [1] [2] She was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PPP on a seat reserved for women from Sindh in the 2008 Pakistani general election. [3] [4]
In the 2024 Pakistani general election, she secured a seat in the National Assembly of Pakistan through a reserved quota for women as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N). [1] [2] On 13 May 2024, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) suspended her membership as a member of the National Assembly. [3]