By Sirajul Haq's logic, all men should be kept away from the polls in the next election.
KARACHI: This is with reference to your story “Elections 2013: Dir women disenfranchised for security reasons’” (May 20). In the story, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Sirajul Haq is quoted as saying that the deal to keep women away from polling in Dir was proposed by the Pakistan Peoples Party based on intelligence reports suggesting militants were planning to use female suicide bombers to attack polling stations on May 11.
The probability of an attack by a male suicide bomber or by a male militant is much higher than that from a female counterpart. By this logic, all men should be kept away from the polls in the next election.
H Majid
Published in The Express Tribune, May 21st, 2013.
