Is governor’s rule on in KP?

As of 11 October 2026, the date of our latest report, we cannot say governor’s rule is in force in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. That report is more than a week old, so things may have moved. It said President Asif Ali Zardari had signed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s advice to impose an emergency in the province under Articles 232 and 234, and Governor Faisal Karim Kundi welcomed the decree [1].

The report said Parliament would take the matter up on Tuesday, and that separate National Assembly and Senate sessions were due to be convened on 13 October [1]. We have no report on what happened in those sessions. Chief Minister Sohail Afridi rejected the move, saying “We will not accept governor’s rule or an emergency as an unconstitutional measure” [1].