Pakistan’s president today vowed that crucial parliamentary elections would go ahead tomorrow as planned despite a massive suicide car bombing at a campaign rally that killed up to 46 people – many of them supporters of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

An international human rights group claimed today that Pakistani officials are storing tents and other relief supplies instead of immediately distributing them to earthquake survivors.

China is suppressing peaceful Muslim religious and cultural activities in its west under the guise of fighting terrorism, two US-based human rights groups said today.