07/17/18

Hello, I'm David Harper with the BBC News. A suicide bomb attack targeting an election rally in Pakistan has killed 120 people.

Officials say over 100 others were injured in the blast in Balochistan. The Islamic State group said it carried out the attack. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.

More than a 1000 people had gathered for an election rally in Mastung town near the city of Quetta when the suicide bomber struck. Among those killed was a well-known provincial assembly candidate. Several people are said to be in critical condition.

The bombing was the biggest attack in Pakistan in more than a year. Earlier, a bomb killed four people in the northern town of Bannu striking the campaign convoy of another politician.

The latest attacks were unexpected as the Pakistani military had said militants had been cleared from Pakistan's troubled areas. The former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif has been arrested after returning to the country

where he faces a ten-year jail term for corruption. He flew into the city of Lahore where hundreds of his supporters say they were detained to stop them protesting.

Soon after his arrest, Mr. Sharif and his daughter Maryam who's also been sentenced in the same case were taken to the capital Islamabad in a special plane.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Central london in protest at President Trump's visit to Britain while Mr. Trump was having tea at Windsor Castle with Queen Elizabeth.

Huge crowds of protesters filled Trafalgar Square in the capital, denouncing his policies. Robert Tuttle is a former US ambassador to the UK.

He believes that the president's earlier meeting with the British Prime Minister Theresa May was worthwhile despite his criticism of her and other European leaders during his trip.