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 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...
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has taken its long march to the streets. After two rounds of negotiations with the government failed to produce an agreement, the party set out on Sunday, October 4, from Gandi Chowk in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat, with Chief Minister Sohail Afridi leading the first phase. The march was first called for...
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...
With Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s planned long march to Islamabad now just three days away, the federal government has delivered its clearest message yet to the party: the protest will not be permitted in the capital, come what may. Sources say the message has been conveyed to PTI leadership, even as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi,...
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi’s planned address at a PTI rally in Karachi was thrown into uncertainty on Sunday as authorities blocked several key arteries across the city, causing massive traffic disruption and repeatedly delaying his arrival from Hyderabad. Afridi’s caravan left Hyderabad before sunset but ran into roadblocks almost immediately on its route toward...
A long-running dispute over the treatment of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan inside Adiala Jail has resurfaced, with prison authorities pushing back publicly against claims from the party that the former prime minister is being held in isolation and denied adequate access to family and legal counsel. Jail officials say Khan, who has been in...