{"id":61728,"date":"2024-02-07T19:12:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/07\/bombings-at-election-offices-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2024-02-08T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T06:05:27","slug":"at-least-24-killed-in-two-bombings-at-election-offices-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61728","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan election: polls open a day after bombings claimed by Islamic State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phone services suspended for security reasons as voting begins, a day after at least 30 killed in attacks in Balochistan province<\/p>\n<p>Phone services were suspended in <a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/pakistan\">Pakistan<\/a> on Thursday as polls opened in its general election, a day after two bomb blasts at the election offices of a political party and an independent candidate in south-west Pakistan killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens more.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s caretaker government said that phone services, including mobile internet, had been temporarily suspended for security reasons.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/07\/bombings-at-election-offices-in-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phone services suspended for security reasons as voting begins, a day after at least 30 killed in attacks in Balochistan provincePhone services were suspended in Pakistan on Thursday as polls opened in its general election, a day after two bomb blasts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61728"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61756,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61728\/revisions\/61756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}