Male elders banned females from voting in Mohri Pur, some 60km from the central Pakistain city of Multan
Home of the Multan Sultans..., around 1947 and the women have obeyed ever since.
This year many had vowed to cast a ballot following changes to Pakistain’s election laws and amid shifting attitudes towards women in parts of the deeply patriarchal South Asian country.
Some 3,200 women were listed on the electoral register in Mohri Pur - but not one voted, according to election officials and an AFP journalist at the village’s sole polling station.
"We have threats from our husbands that they will divorce us if we cast our vote," 25-year-old Tanya Bibi told AFP as she walked past the polling station, without going in.
Around 8,000 men were registered to vote in the village. Large queues of them - each clutching identity cards - formed at the polling station, located in a school.
"We are here to cast our ballots, but our women didn’t cast their votes because it is our old tradition which we have been preserving," Muhammad Shamsher told AFP.