ISLAMABAD: Women in Dir, Kohistan, and North and South Waziristan made history on Wednesday when they cast their votes for the first time, reports Dawn.

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Babar Yaqoob confirmed that women in Dir had cast their votes in the General Election for the first time in Pakistan's history.

According to BBC Urdu, women turnout was high at Lower Dir's Government Higher Secondary School Rabaat.

Meanwhile, Express Tribune's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bureau Chief Iftikhar Firdous tweeted a photo of women in Mohmand tribal district's Bayzai sub-division, some 5 kilometres from the Afghan border, going to vote for the first time.

North Waziristan Government Administrator Mohammad Ayaz Khan told AP that women had voted in the tribal region for the first time. "We made history today.