{"id":24080,"date":"2026-10-15T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/15\/pakistan-governors-rule-emergency-khyber-pakhtunkhwa\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:30:16","slug":"pakistan-governors-rule-emergency-khyber-pakhtunkhwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/15\/pakistan-governors-rule-emergency-khyber-pakhtunkhwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan parliament approves governor&#8217;s rule and emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s parliament has approved governor\u2019s rule and a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, paving the way for federal intervention in the province\u2019s administration, a move that has drawn strong \u0627\u0639\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0636s from opposition lawmakers from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s federal government said the measure was prompted by the provincial administration\u2019s inability to contain armed attacks and ensure security. Opponents, however, say removing the elected provincial government will deepen the country\u2019s political crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Makhdoom Mahmood Khan Achakzai, an opposition leader, called the decision illegal and warned that continuing such actions could spread political tensions to other provinces, including Balochistan and Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has also called for an end to the state of emergency and the resumption of talks with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. Pakistan\u2019s federal government, meanwhile, insists that imposing the emergency was necessary to counter security threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan approves governor&#8217;s rule and emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, triggering opposition protests and calls to resume talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080","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=24080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}