Pakistan imposes emergency rule in Imran Khan stronghold | DW News

Pakistan has imposed emergency rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, suspending the elected provincial government led by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s PTI party. Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and other provincial leaders have been detained. The federal government says the intervention is necessary to tackle worsening militant violence. PTI says it is intended to stop its supporters marching on Islamabad to demand Khan’s release. Ayesha Siddiqa, a senior fellow in King’s College London’s Department of War Studies and an expert on Pakistan’s military, examines the security justification, the p…

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