F.P. Report
TIMERGARA: A total of 46103 including 19103 women and 27000 men voters were registered by in Lower Dir recently during the ongoing voters’ registration process. With this addition the total strength of voters in Lower Dir reached to 6, 68,914 including 2, 71,226 women and 3, 97,688 men.
The district election commissioner Noor Said Khan Khattak told local journalists here on Tuesday that 2300 voters had been dropped out due to their death. He said under the delimitation plan the Lower Dir was comprised of two national and four provincial assembly seats.
Khattak said that 16467 new voters were registered in PK-94, 13077 in PK-95, 7198 in PK-96 and 9261 in PK-97 constituency. According to new electoral rolls the number of female voters in the district is 2, 71,226 with the increase of 19103 new voters. Similarly the number of male voters with the recent increase is now 3, 97,688.
The district election commissioner said that 7259 women were registered in PK-94, 5358 in PK-95, 2610 in PK 96 and 3876 in PK-97 constituency. About women disenfranchisement in Lower Dir, he said the ECP always set up separate polling stations for women. He said women participation in election could only be ensured once all the political parties and area elders willfully supported the ECP. The Peshawar High Court has recently stayed result of one tehsil council ward in Shahikhel Talash over women disenfranchisement. In past too, women have not been exercising their right to vote in the district due to which the election result of PK-95 by-election in May, 2015 was declared null and void after civil society members challenged it on barring women of voting. The Lower Dir election commissioner said the ECP would try its best to ensure women participation in general election 2018.
