{"id":23728,"date":"2026-10-11T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/11\/khyber-pakhtunkhwa-chief-minister-pti-chief-detained-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:50:16","slug":"khyber-pakhtunkhwa-chief-minister-pti-chief-detained-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/11\/khyber-pakhtunkhwa-chief-minister-pti-chief-detained-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister and PTI provincial chief detained in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the declaration of an emergency and the imposition of governor\u2019s rule in Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, reports say Sohail Afridi, the provincial chief minister, and Junaid Akbar, the provincial president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, have been detained.<\/p>\n<p>Junaid Akbar confirmed his detention in a message posted on social media and said that both he and Sohail Afridi had been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, after the emergency and governor\u2019s rule were implemented, restrictions were placed on visits and meetings with Sohail Afridi, and the news of the detention of the two political figures was then announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports say Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Sohail Afridi and PTI provincial chief Junaid Akbar have been detained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}