What this barbaric behavior supposed to accomplish I don't understand.
Pakistan has been hit by violence on the day of its general elections - with at least 31 dead in the worst attack.
A man blew himself up outside a polling station in Quetta, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
Preliminary, unofficial results suggest ex-cricket star Imran Khan's PTI party is in the lead as votes are counted.
However, the rival party of disgraced former PM Nawaz Sharif, PML-N, has rejected the results amid allegations of vote rigging.
The campaign has been overshadowed by concerns of fraud and violence, and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says there have been "blatant" attempts to manipulate the polls.
There have also been delays in releasing the results. Baber Yaqoob, the secretary of the Electoral Commission, said this was due to technical errors, adding: "There's no conspiracy."
"The delay is being caused because the result transmission system has collapsed," Mr Yaqoob said.
According to unofficial initial results, the PTI party is currently leading in 109 national assembly seats, while PML-N is ahead in about 67 seats, local media report.
However, only votes from 34% of polling stations have so far been counted, Dawn newspaper says.
The turnout has been estimated at between 50% and 55% out of 106 million registered voters, AFP reports.
Several political groups have alleged that vote rigging is taking place in polling stations - something denied by election officials.
Representatives from several parties say that their polling agents were expelled from polling stations during vote count and were denied certified copies of results - breaching election procedures.
Analysts have also highlighted unusual delays in the announcement of unofficial results in dozens of constituencies, especially in the crucial province of Punjab which has been a stronghold of PML-N.
Shehbaz Sharif, leader of the PML-N party and brother of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, said the vote counting process was "unbearable and unacceptable" due to "manifest and massive irregularities".
"It's such a blatant rigging that everyone has started crying. Today what they have done has pushed Pakistan back 30 years," he said.
Mr Khan has vowed to tackle corruption but his rivals accuse him of benefiting from alleged meddling by the military, which has ruled Pakistan for nearly half of its history.
Mr Sharif, who won the last election, has been jailed for corruption after a scandal stemming from the Panama Papers leak.
How bad is the violence?
Despite tight security, with hundreds of thousands of troops and police officers deployed across the country, there have been violent attacks.
In addition to the suicide attack in Quetta, in Balochistan province, one person died in a grenade attack in Khuzdar, and another died in a shooting between political rivals in Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The Dawn newspaper also reported clashes in Mardan, Rajanpur, Khipro and Kohistan.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-44924384
Pakistan has been hit by violence on the day of its general elections - with at least 31 dead in the worst attack.
A man blew himself up outside a polling station in Quetta, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
Preliminary, unofficial results suggest ex-cricket star Imran Khan's PTI party is in the lead as votes are counted.
However, the rival party of disgraced former PM Nawaz Sharif, PML-N, has rejected the results amid allegations of vote rigging.
The campaign has been overshadowed by concerns of fraud and violence, and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says there have been "blatant" attempts to manipulate the polls.
There have also been delays in releasing the results. Baber Yaqoob, the secretary of the Electoral Commission, said this was due to technical errors, adding: "There's no conspiracy."
"The delay is being caused because the result transmission system has collapsed," Mr Yaqoob said.
According to unofficial initial results, the PTI party is currently leading in 109 national assembly seats, while PML-N is ahead in about 67 seats, local media report.
However, only votes from 34% of polling stations have so far been counted, Dawn newspaper says.
The turnout has been estimated at between 50% and 55% out of 106 million registered voters, AFP reports.
Several political groups have alleged that vote rigging is taking place in polling stations - something denied by election officials.
Representatives from several parties say that their polling agents were expelled from polling stations during vote count and were denied certified copies of results - breaching election procedures.
Analysts have also highlighted unusual delays in the announcement of unofficial results in dozens of constituencies, especially in the crucial province of Punjab which has been a stronghold of PML-N.
Shehbaz Sharif, leader of the PML-N party and brother of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, said the vote counting process was "unbearable and unacceptable" due to "manifest and massive irregularities".
"It's such a blatant rigging that everyone has started crying. Today what they have done has pushed Pakistan back 30 years," he said.
Mr Khan has vowed to tackle corruption but his rivals accuse him of benefiting from alleged meddling by the military, which has ruled Pakistan for nearly half of its history.
Mr Sharif, who won the last election, has been jailed for corruption after a scandal stemming from the Panama Papers leak.
How bad is the violence?
Despite tight security, with hundreds of thousands of troops and police officers deployed across the country, there have been violent attacks.
In addition to the suicide attack in Quetta, in Balochistan province, one person died in a grenade attack in Khuzdar, and another died in a shooting between political rivals in Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The Dawn newspaper also reported clashes in Mardan, Rajanpur, Khipro and Kohistan.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-44924384
