{"id":61765,"date":"2024-02-08T21:44:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T12:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/08\/pakistan-election-phone-service-suspended-country-goes-to-polls"},"modified":"2024-02-09T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T22:01:51","slug":"pakistan-election-phone-service-suspended-as-country-goes-to-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61765","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan election: phone service suspended as country goes to polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caretaker government says it took decision for security reasons after two bomb blasts targeted election offices<\/p>\n<p>Phone services have been suspended in Pakistan as the country voted in a general election marred by allegations of vote rigging and militant attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The caretaker government said phone services, including mobile internet, had been suspended on Thursday for security reasons, after two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/07\/bombings-at-election-offices-in-pakistan\">two bomb blasts by Islamic State targeted election offices<\/a> in the restive region of Balochistan on the eve of the polls.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/08\/pakistan-election-phone-service-suspended-country-goes-to-polls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caretaker government says it took decision for security reasons after two bomb blasts targeted election officesPhone services have been suspended in Pakistan as the country voted in a general election marred by allegations of vote rigging and militant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1855,"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":[359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61765","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\/1855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61779,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61765\/revisions\/61779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}