Desi-Digest: Pakistan elections delayed

A spokesman for Pakistan's election-commission has said that holding parliamentary elections as scheduled on 8 January "looks impossible". But Kanwar Dilshad said the final decision would be reached on Wednesday after consulting political parties.

There are no grounds whatsoever for delaying the elections.
Raza Rabbani, deputy secretary general, PPP

Mr Dilshad told reporters that protests had directly affected the organisation of the poll in some parts of the country. "We will inform the political parties about the situation in Sindh where our 13 offices were burnt," he said.

Via BBC