In the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore at least 73 people have been killed and several
hundred injured when a suicide bomber struck inside a famous Sufi shrine.
An affiliate of the so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The blast targeted police officers escorting pharmacists who were protesting a law governing
drug sales.
In Baghdad,... around 50 people have been killed after a car bomb ripped through a southwestern
district of Iraq's capital.
The blast comes in the wake of a series of similar attacks which shook Baghdad in the
last few days killing at least a further 24 people.
According to reports, Thursday's bombing has been claimed by the so-called Islamic State.