Pakistan: more than 128 million voters called to vote, internet suspended. More than 17,000 candidates are in the running.
Some 90,000 polling stations opened their doors the day after a day marked by violence. There are no mobile phone networks, no internet since this morning, a measure taken by the Ministry of the Interior for security reasons. The serious economic crisis, the political crisis, these are the challenges of this election which is taking place under high security, says RFI's Sonia Ghezali.