Women voters of Pakistan
Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party cheer during a campaign rally in Lahore two days before Pakistan went to the polls for a vote marking the country's first transition from one elected government to another.
Despite pre-poll violence from Islamists and a string of bomb blasts on election day, voter turnout was a robust 60 percent. Reuters photographers documented some of the women who came out to take part in the landmark ballot.
A girl walks down a street decorated with campaign posters the day before the vote. The results of the ballot saw former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was toppled in a 1999 military coup, make a decisive comeback. He is now poised to take office for a third time.
A supporter of Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician and chairman of the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, lays flowers outside Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital to pray for his quick recovery. Khan injured his head after falling off a mechanical lift at a rally four days before national elections, party officials said.
An election worker looks out of the window of a bus being used to transport ballot boxes the day before the vote.
Women wait at a polling station in a village near Lahore.
Others wait at a village voting station on election day.
Women register and cast their ballots at a polling station in the old part of Lahore.
A voter arrives at a polling station just before closing time.
Election officials talk at a voting station near Lahore.
A voter stamps her ballot paper inside a polling booth.
An election official marks a voter's thumb with ink as she is given a ballot before casting her vote.
