An emergency allows Pakistan's federal government to assume key executive and legislative powers in a province during a security crisis or breakdown of constitutional governance ....
The emergency move, invoked under two articles of Pakistan's constitution dealing with security, grants the federal government sweeping administrative powers over the province ... .
Excerpts of a sensitive intelligence report accessed by CNN-News18 reveal that any direct federal takeover of the province risks a total security breakdown ....
Following the approval, the federal government appointed Dr Muhammad Fakhr Alam Irfan as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s chief secretary, according to an official notification reported by Dawn.
Pakistan has imposed emergency rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a stronghold of Imran Khan’s PTI, citing deteriorating law and order and security concerns amid anti-government protests demanding the jailed former prime minister’s release ... .
ISLAMABAD The Pakistani president on Sunday declared a state of emergency in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province bordering Afghanistan and suspended its government, which is led by imprisoned former Prime MinisterImran Khan’s party.
The federal government on Sunday authorised the deployment of Pakistan Army troops and assets in aid of civil power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after imposing an emergency and governor’s rule in the province.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Saturday assailed the PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government over a “lack of governance” in the province ... Tarar also alleged that the KP government had held the people of the province “captive to terrorists”.