The Peshawar High Court has admitted hearing the petitions challenging the emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, setting October 20 as the date for detailed arguments. The decision moves the confrontation over the province from Parliament, where the government secured its approval this week, into a courtroom, where the legal basis of the intervention...
Parliament has completed its approval of the emergency and governor’s rule imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with a joint sitting on Thursday backing the federal government’s move over the protests of PTI and other opposition lawmakers. The vote closes the first constitutional stage of one of the most contentious decisions of the year and shifts the...
The federal government has imposed an emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, placing the province run by Imran Khan’s PTI under direct central oversight in the middle of the party’s long march. Within hours, Chief Minister Sohail Afridi was reported to be in custody, leaving the country facing a constitutional confrontation whose outcome is...