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A Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 on the apron at Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, the carrier's narrow wide-body jet under a clear sky.

PM defends K-P emergency as 'compulsion' after 48-hour talks failed

PM Shehbaz on Saturday said the K-P emergency became a compulsion after 48-hour federal–PTI talks collapsed, with Nawaz backing it from London.

A wide landscape view of Kumrat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa showing forested hills and the river plain under a clear sky.

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Pakistan notifies 48-member Area Development Council for 12 K-P districts

Pakistan's federal cabinet on Saturday notified 48 ARDC members from 12 K-P districts under governor's rule, naming Shaukatullah Khan of Bajaur as chair.

The Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court inaugurating the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Judicial Academy's radio station, with officials seated behind a microphone.

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Peshawar High Court fixes October 20 to hear PTI plea against K-P emergency and governor's rule

The Peshawar High Court has fixed 20 October to hear PTI's petitions challenging the emergency and governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

View from the Khyber Pass looking across the border toward Afghanistan, showing a settled valley of low buildings and cultivated terraces in arid, mountainous terrain.

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Pakistan Army hits Afghan Taliban posts at Kurram and Ghozgarhi after unprovoked firing

Pakistan said on 17 October that its army struck the Shipola base camp and Topser post in Upper Kurram after Afghan Taliban opened fire at Taida and Ghozgarhi.

A wide view of the Kohat valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under a clear sky

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Kohat Police Lines attack mastermind killed in Lakki Marwat operation

Pakistan's Counter Terrorism Department says Zahid Gul, accused of masterminding the 18 September Kohat Police Lines attack, was killed in a joint operation in Lakki Marwat.

Gentleman Cadets of the Pakistan Army on parade at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul, with rows of cadets in ceremonial uniform visible across the parade ground.

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Pakistan's nuclear commander warns of 'cross-border aggression' at PMA Kakul passing-out parade

CNSC Gen Aamer Raza told PMA Kakul cadets on 17 October that Pakistan will not tolerate cross-border aggression and warned of consequences in a nuclearised environment.

A map of Balochistan's districts, with Kalat, Mastung, Nushki, Kharan, Chagai and Washuk labelled among the province's administrative areas.

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Twenty police recruits abducted in Balochistan while travelling home on leave

Unidentified gunmen stopped a passenger van in Kalat district and abducted 20 police recruits bound for Nushki, officials said on 17 October; no group has claimed responsibility.

A red-brick boundary wall and white metal gate of a government English-medium primary school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with a school signboard mounted above the gate.

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Peshawar school collapse: FIR names owners and contractor as K-P orders safety inspections

Police charged the owners and contractor of the Peshawar school where a roof collapse killed more than 30 children, as K-P ordered province-wide school safety inspections.

Wide shot of the Supreme Court of Pakistan building in Islamabad, a long horizontal modernist facade with a central dome, set behind trees on a clear day.

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Justice Munib Akhtar sworn in as acting Chief Justice of Pakistan

On 15 October 2026 Justice Munib Akhtar, the Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, took oath as acting Chief Justice in Islamabad.

The exterior of the Election Commission of Pakistan headquarters in Islamabad, a low-rise building behind a wide gate, photographed in 2013.

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ECP rejects Punjab plea to delay local government polls until April 2027

The Election Commission of Pakistan on 15 October 2026 rejected Punjab's request to push local government polls to April 2027, ordering immediate election schedules.

The façade and gated entrance of a Peshawar government school building, with a tall flagpole, three stories of classrooms, and mature trees shading the courtyard.

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Peshawar private school roof collapse kills more than two dozen children, teacher

The Al-Khair School System roof collapse in Peshawar's Dir Colony on 15 October 2026 killed at least 20 children and one teacher, with more than 30 injured.

A head-and-shoulders portrait of Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan's interior minister, in a dark suit and tie.

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Pakistan and Russia agree to finalise extradition and prisoner-transfer deals

During the first visit by a Russian interior minister, Pakistan and Russia agreed to finalise an extradition treaty and a criminal-exchange pact and signed an organised-crime MoU.