Two of Pakistan’s leading private television networks, ordered off air during emergency rule, said on Saturday they had been forced to close down altogether after being ordered to halt transmissions via the United Arab Emirates.

At least 30 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in sectarian clashes between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said on Saturday.

The breakaway province of Kosovo holds its third postwar parliamentary election on Saturday, ahead of a showdown with Serbia over the ethnic Albanian majority’s demand for independence.