PeshawarShipping containers now block roads across the city.
Pakistan’s federal government on Sunday effectively suspended the province’s elected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government.
Articles 232 and 234, approved by the president, let the centre take over a province in an emergency.
In Lahore, bus terminals were sealed and intercity services suspended, though motorway police say roads are open.
The march demanding Imran Khan’s release, begun 4 October, has not yet left Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 80+ reports worldwide
- Dawn leans critical
- gives the historical record of governor's rule in Pakistan since 1949, placing the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa move in that sequence
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- frames the emergency as a response to PTI's 'deliberate disengagement from the fight against terrorism' and an Islamabad march to free Imran Khan
- Dawn
- details the Peshawar containment, naming the specific roads and bazaars blocked by shipping containers and the Governor House police deployment
- Dawn
- documents the Lahore bus-terminal sealing and the stranding of passengers after Faisal Movers and Daewoo suspended service, with motorway police contradicting the order
Sources: Dawn, Dawn, Dawn, Al Jazeera Online