Pakistan shaken by deadly attacks on eve of legislative elections. At least 24 people killed Wednesday in two attacks near election candidate offices in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan.
More than half a million members of the security forces were deployed for the vote, for which the authorities began distributing ballots to more than 90,000 polling stations on Wednesday. Nearly 18,000 candidates are standing in the elections to obtain a seat in the National Assembly or provincial assemblies. Some 128 million voters are called to the polls, in the fifth most populous country in the world.