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Pakistan imposes emergency rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The government cited militant violence. Imran Khan’s PTI rejected its justification

By Newsola Editorial Desk · Published 14 Oct 2026, 06:13 · 1 min read

Peshawar city centre in February 2018. Background photograph, not the current protests.
Mohammed Ahmed Arsalan Khan / Wikimedia Commons. Background photo, 9 February 2018; not current protests. CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_center_Peshawar_city.jpg . Unedited.

Pakistan declared a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a stronghold of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), on October 11, Reuters reported.

Governor’s rule replaced the PTI-led provincial administration, according to the same report.

The federal government said provincial authorities had failed to curb Islamist militancy. PTI rejected the allegation, saying Islamabad had not provided the funding and equipment it needed.

PTI spokesperson Zulfikar Bukhari condemned the decision and alleged that it was intended to stop a planned protest demanding Khan’s release, Reuters reported.

This story was drafted with AI assistance from the sources listed below and reviewed by a human editor before publication.

Sources

  1. [1]Al Jazeera English
  2. [2]BBC World News
  3. [3]thehindu.com
  4. [4]investing.com
  5. [5]theguardian.com
  6. [6]npr.org
  7. [7]ft.com
  8. [8]bbc.com

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