Elections 2018: Women break the glass ceiling in KP's Dir

PESHAWAR: For the first time in the country’s history, women in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dir district cast their votes in the general elections, ARY News reported on Wednesday.

As the country went to polls earlier in the day, women from the area, who were never allowed to vote by their menfolk and sometimes the powerful political parties headed to polling stations to take part in the electoral exercise.

The north western province’s other districts like Swat and Qilla Abdullah district also saw women thronging polling stations in large numbers.

It is pertinent to note here that the province’s former ruling party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) also fielded a female candidate from a provincial assembly seat as Hameed Shahid contested from Upper Dir  (PK-10).