Pakistan elections: The women who are forbidden from voting
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Voting is a constitutional right for all adults in Pakistan, which goes to the polls in a general election on February 8. But in some rural areas, still ruled by a patriarchal system of male village elders, women are effectively barred from voting. That is the case in the small northern town of Dhurnal, where a ban has been in place for more than 50 years.
Curious: It seems that these women are quite happy to be restricted to their roles as caretakers of the home and family. There may be something to be said for having a defined role to play in life.
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