Imran Khan favours women’s direct election rather selection

Lahore: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman, Imran Khan addressing a seminar “Justice for Women,” at Aiwan-e-Iqbal Lahore never said that he is against reserved seats for women in the parliament as misquoted in several newspapers.

This is to clarify to the media; Imran Khan said that instead of women taking the reserved seats based on nomination lists a special election specifically for women alone should be held for the reserved seats so as to ensure genuine women representation. The intra-party election of PTI is proof of the fact that the reserved seats for women are also being contested for. Khan holds that legislators in the assembly are representative of the people and the women on reserved seats should be truly representative of their lot.