Pakistan suspended mobile services across the country as voters went to the polls on February 8; the Interior Ministry cited a deteriorating security situation (Adnan Aamir/Nikkei Asia)

Adnan Aamir / Nikkei Asia:

Pakistan suspended mobile services across the country as voters went to the polls on February 8; the Interior Ministry cited a deteriorating security situation  —  Outages in name of security fuel suspicion over polls' legitimacy  —  Poll workers walk past police officers outside a voting station in Peshawar on Feb. 8.

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