{"id":4247,"date":"2025-12-25T17:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/25\/khyber-pakhtunkhwa-chief-minister-democracy-supreme-court-protests\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:45:19","slug":"khyber-pakhtunkhwa-chief-minister-democracy-supreme-court-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/25\/khyber-pakhtunkhwa-chief-minister-democracy-supreme-court-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Criticizes Damage to Democracy and Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sohail Afridi, the Chief Minister of Pakistan&#8217;s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, criticized several political factions in the country, stating that these groups, driven by a thirst for power, have harmed the democratic system and even the Supreme Court of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Afridi, these actions have not only weakened legal processes but have also undermined public trust in the state&#8217;s fundamental institutions\u2014a concern frequently raised by political observers in Pakistan in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister also announced that preparations are underway to hold peaceful protests, which are being led by Imran Khan, the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that these protests are intended to be conducted peacefully with the purpose of expressing political demands, even as Pakistan&#8217;s political environment continues to face tensions and deep divisions among parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s Chief Minister Sohail Afridi criticizes political groups for harming democracy and the Supreme Court amid plans for peaceful protests led by Imran Khan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","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\/4247","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=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}