Institutions, local government and how power actually gets exercised.
A coalition of Sindhi nationalist parties began a march from Larkana toward Karachi on October 16, opposing federal proposals to carve new provinces or administrative units out of Sindh, after police barricades briefly halted several of its leaders' convoys.
BBP Politics Desk · October 16, 2026 · 4 min
A joint sitting of Parliament endorsed the emergency and governor's rule imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, adopting a procedural motion 214 to 56 before passing resolutions that satisfy the constitution's ten-day approval window, as PTI, JUI-F and TTAP lawmakers protested the move on the floor.
BBP Politics Desk · October 15, 2026 · 4 min
Two days after governor's rule removed him from office, Sohail Afridi's brother filed a petition in the Peshawar High Court asking it to trace him, examine the legality of any detention and order police to preserve CCTV footage from the scene.
BBP Politics Desk · October 14, 2026 · 4 min
The Directorate General of Immigration and Passports has told passport offices and Pakistani missions abroad to stop issuing machine-readable passports from October 15, 2026. Anyone applying for a new passport from that date gets an e-passport instead, though existing MRPs stay valid until they expire.
BBP Politics Desk · October 14, 2026 · 2 min
President Asif Ali Zardari summoned separate National Assembly and Senate sessions for the evening of October 13 to seek the parliamentary endorsement Pakistan's constitution requires for emergency and governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as the PPP agreed to back the government and JUI-F tabled resolutions calling the move unconstitutional.
BBP Politics Desk · October 13, 2026 · 4 min
A day after governor's rule hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sohail Afridi's exact whereabouts remain unconfirmed, Dawn's sources describe a house arrest under the Maintenance of Public Order law, and the long march that was supposed to reach Swabi has stalled amid a security crackdown and a communications blackout.
BBP Politics Desk · October 12, 2026 · 5 min
Less than a day after President Asif Ali Zardari proclaimed emergency and governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a petition challenging it reached the Peshawar High Court, and the Lahore High Court Bar Association said it would jointly file a separate case in the Supreme Court.
BBP Politics Desk · October 12, 2026 · 3 min
Sources tell Pakistani outlets the federal government has completed administrative groundwork — DC and secretary appointments, police posting lists — for a possible emergency covering KP's eight merged tribal districts plus Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Bannu and Lakki Marwat. PTI calls it a breach of the 18th Amendment; CM Afridi says he won't accept it.
BBP Politics Desk · October 11, 2026 · 4 min
President Asif Ali Zardari has proclaimed emergency and governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under Articles 232 and 234, removing Chief Minister Sohail Afridi, his ministers, advisers and the Advocate General from office with immediate effect. Governor Faisal Karim Kundi now runs the province; Afridi has vowed to defy the move.
BBP Politics Desk · October 11, 2026 · 4 min
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