World News from the BBC
Venezuela’s attorney general says violent clashes at opposition protests over disputed presidential elections have left at least seven people dead. The country’s president-elect Nicolas Maduro said the opposition was responsible. Irene Casella reports from Caracas.
Nicolas Maduro who was proclaimed the president on Monday after a narrow victory blamed the deaths and violence on opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. Mr. Maduro said the pattern of violence was similar to that of the coup attempt in 2002 when Hugo Chavez was deposed for two days. Mr. Capriles has not accepted the results of Sunday’s election. He asked supporters to carry out peaceful protests by banning pots and pans around the country.
Police in Pakistan say a bomb targeting an election campaign rally in the northwestern city of Peshawar has killed at least eight people. The bomb exploded as senior members of the Awami National Party which opposes the Taliban were arriving for a meeting. Attempts by the former president General Pervez Musharraf to stand in the poll have been dented by the rejection of his candidature by election tribunals. His lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri said Mr. Musharraf would
appeal
arguing that the decision was undemocratic.
“They are trying to establish that dictatorship or democracy is a frame of mind. A man in uniform can be democrat and a man in the shirt while can be a dictator. And they’ve also had dictatorship judicially.