by Shahid Khan in The Nation, Nov 30, 2022PESHAWAR – While Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leadership is expected to hold a parliamentary party meeting within the next several days to discuss the issue of resignations from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly to push for fresh elections, the leadership of various political parties believe that the PTI chairman Imran Khan’s announcement of resignations is not practical while some legal experts believe that even if PTI lawmakers resign, KP can face…
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by Dr Syed Akhtar Ali Shah in The Express Tribune, Nov 29th, 2022.The author, a former Secretary to Government, currently heads a think tank ‘Good Governance Forum’.That terrorism is rising and rising in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa goes without saying. Police installations and security forces are under constant attacks, amidst extortion calls and target killings. The other day hordes of armed groups have also been observed issuing their own edicts, under- mining the writ of the government. According…
by Manzoor Ali in Dawn, October 20th, 2022PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Science and Information Technology Muhammad Atif Khan on Wednesday confirmed that he has received a ransom note purportedly from the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), demanding Rs8 million in three days or he would be targeted. Earlier, a letter purportedly from the outlawed TTP’s Mardan chapter, the hometown of Mr Khan, was widely shared on social media wherein the outfit told the minister he…
Khan’s new war game
by Zahid Hussain in Dawn, November 30th, 2022The writer is an author and journalist.IMRAN Khan’s latest change of tack has caught his opponents by surprise. For months, the federal government had braced itself for a siege, and was reinforcing security around the capital. But the PTI’s decision to call off the march and dissolve the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies has changed the entire scenario. It all happened on the eve of the change of…