Assembly elections 2017

Pakistani Bride Votes For The First Time In Punjab

A 35-year-old woman from Pakistan, who is not allowed to cast her vote there as she belongs to a persecuted community, managed to exercise her franchise for the first time in the Punjab elections this time. Tahira Maqbool had got married to a man hailing from Gurdaspur's Qadian town in 2003 and got her Indian citizenship in. April 2016.