What affects how Pakistanis vote?

Hello from Newshour. Those of you in Pakistan are poised to vote on Monday and Newshour’s Owen Bennett-Jones will be in Lahore on Saturday at 1230 GMT, discussing how you’ll be voting and why. We’d value your contributions, and, wherever you are, if you have a question about the elections, we’ll do our best to get you an answer.

Who decides who is entitled to independence?

Kosovo is poised to declare it’s independence from Serbia in the next few days. Although the United States and several European Union countries are likely to support the move, Russia and Serbia have said any such declaration would be illegitimate and have urged the United Nations Security Council to take swift action against it.

Tonight we want to hear from you if you are in Kosovo, is independence the right move for you? And what are the rules for any state that wants to become independent? If your country has recently declared its independence we want to hear from you, how has your life changed?

The state of Kosovo?

Good morning, what to talk about today? The news website isn’t much help – its top story, “Vaccine against HIV ‘no nearer'”, is a headline I would have got a ticking off for way back when I worked at a newspaper. The theory is that if nothing has changed, why would someone want to read it? Anyway, moving on to the World Service, our first item is the Serbian foreign minister telling the UN Security Council that it must stop the province of Kosovo declaring independence.