just hours before polls open, for the general election tomorrow. at least 27 people have been killed and many more injured. authorities say, they were targeting the election offices in two parts of baloochistan. the people of pakistan will head to the polls, after a campaign marred by violence and claims of poll rigging. these are some of the pictures in so far these from the blast in the pishin district, outside the election office of an independent local candidate. officials told the bbc he was meeting his polling agent at the time. the second explosion went off outside the office of a political party killing at least eight people. the afp news agency quotes a senior police official, saying it happened in the main bazaar. (map the explosions happened within an hour of each other, around a hundred and 50 kilometres apart. here s more from our correspondent saher baloch in pakistan. the latest information i have is that the election commissioner of pakistan has said that
hello, i m matthew amroliwala , welcome to verified live, 3 hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. two bomb explosions have exploded in south west pakistan just hours before polls open, for the general election tomorrow. let me take you through what we know so far. at least 22 people have been killed and many more injured. authorities say, they were targeting the election offices in two parts of baloochistan. the people of pakistan will head to the polls, after a campaign marred by violence and claims of poll rigging. these are some of the pictures in so far these from the blast in the pishin district, outside the election office of an independent local candidate. officials told the bbc he was meeting his polling agent at the time. the second explosion went off outside the office of a political party killing at least eight people. the afp news agency quotes a senior police official, saying it happened in the main bazaar. the explosions happen
rule it out in advance. certainly, within the transatlantic community, we re divided on some issues. not concerning the strategy, but certainly the tactics. ok, i m going to press you on this, because you say poland at least has a schedule for this? i would say it is better to think about the conditions that are to be met, rather than to set a concrete date. but you are pressing me now? i am pressing you, because i also want to say, if the conditions are to be met, does that mean a greater emphasis on getting this war done? that s true, but there are certain conditions concerning the integration of ukrainian armed forces, strategy, planning and so on, so this summit at vilnius will bring the country closer to the allies. so this is interesting, because it seems that poland is absolutely leading the way on the nato move now? well, we set out our position with the united states for example, which are equally concerned about this. we share our position with the baltic states,
space with afghan women where we could interact with them away from the scrutiny of the taliban. i remember we chatted, we laughed, we had a cup of tea. we got manicures done. we took a photo of of what our nails looked like afterwards, we saw a bride getting ready for her wedding. for that one hour, ifelt like i could be anywhere in the world away from the reality that awaited these women when they stepped outside of the salon into a world where girls are barred from secondary schools in most provinces, where women can t attend university, where women can t work for domestic or international ngos, they are barred from parks, swimming pools, gyms, public baths, where if they have to travel long distances they have to be escorted by a male relative, where they re expected to wear clothing with only their eyes visible. and for this latest restriction, the taliban aren t even giving a reason, especially and women are asking, this was a female only space. there s no interaction b
to take over the city of rostov on don, where the russian troops and the inhabitants welcomed them, and then, secondly, to head on for moscow. and then, president lukashenko of belarus rang prigozhin and offered him a deal, and that was it prigozhin ordered his men to turn back and he and they have gone to quarters in belarus, not far from the ukrainian border. so, what on earth does it all mean for the man who captured rostov? i asked famil ismailov, news editor of bbc russian. nobody expected that it s going to come to the point when he s going to take over one of the biggest cities in the south of russia with more than one million population and seize the headquarters of a southern army command which is in charge of operations in ukraine. so to that point, yes, unexpected. but other than that, prigozhin is such a character and his private army has come to such a level of influence on the front line and also in public opinion because he s able to deliver his views on th