Eighteen days after the federal government imposed an emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province is being run through an unusual mix of arrangements: a governor assisted by an advisory council, special emergency measures in 12 districts, a court case that will not be heard again for another two weeks, and an elected...
The roof of a private school collapsed in Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least 28 children and a female teacher and injuring more than 50 others, in one of the deadliest building collapses involving a school in Pakistan in recent memory. The toll was still being confirmed as rescue teams cleared the rubble. The collapse...
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...
The standoff between the federal government and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government widened sharply this week, with Islamabad threatening to impose governor’s rule in the province if Chief Minister Sohail Afridi does not abandon PTI’s planned October 4 march, while Afridi has responded with defiance rather than retreat. Federal Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said governor’s...
A Senate committee sits down, does the arithmetic, and arrives at a number most governments would treat as urgent: four to five trillion rupees a year, sitting unclaimed, simply because the federal government still runs ministries the Constitution told it to hand over in 2010. That is not a rounding error. It is close to...
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