Pakistan goes to polls in landmark election

Voting is under way across Pakistan in landmark national and provincial elections.

The vote marks Pakistan's first transition from one civilian government to another in its 66-year history.
However, the run-up to the election has been marred by violence in which more than 100 people have been killed.
A bomb blast in the port city of Karachi on Saturday morning left at least three people dead and several others wounded, officials said.
Tens of thousands of troops are deployed at polling stations after the Pakistani Taliban threatened to carry out suicide attacks.
Hours before polls opened, Pakistan sealed its borders with Iran and Afghanistan in a bid to keep foreign militants at bay.
Officials said the borders would remain closed for the next three days.
Queues started forming before polling stations opened at 08:00 (03:00 GMT) on Saturday,

At one polling station in the capital, Islamabad, more than 200 people waited patiently to vote.

Abdul Sattar, 74, said: "We want change, we are really fed up with old faces coming back to power every time and doing nothing for the nation."
EU observers in the eastern city of Lahore told the BBC that voting there was going smoothly and without any interruptions.
The BBC's Saba Eitizaz in Peshawar reports long queues of women waiting to vote. Many are voting for the first time and are excited about being part of a historic change, our correspondent says.
Polling stations will close at 17:00.
The Taliban on Friday warned voters to boycott polling stations in order to avoid attacks on the offices of political parties.
The militants have been blamed for numerous attacks throughout the campaign on Pakistan's three most prominent liberal parties.
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) along with the Karachi-based Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP) have been singled out for attacks by the Taliban.
As a result, the parties were forced to curtail their election campaigning.
Around two hours after polling started, a bomb attack was reported in Karachi, apparently targeting an ANP candidate outside the party's political office. At least three people were killed and several others were wounded, officials said.
There were also unconfirmed reports of explosions in Peshawar in the north-west of the country and Quetta in the south-west.
Militants have so far avoided targeting the campaigns of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of Nawaz Sharif and the Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) party of Imran Khan.
In a bid to clamp down on corruption, election officials say electoral rolls have been refreshed and a text messaging service will provide voting information to individuals