{
  "id": 16154930,
  "title": "PM Shehbaz defends emergency rule in KP amid escalating security crisis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/pm-shehbaz-defends-emergency-rule-in-kp-amid-escalating-security",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T05:01:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Times",
    "slug": "daily-times",
    "url": "https://dailytimes.com.pk/1571130/pm-shehbaz-defends-emergency-rule-in-kp-amid-escalating-security-crisis/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif defended the federal government’s decision to impose emergency rule and governor’s authority in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Chairing a high-level provincial apex committee meeting at Governor House in Peshawar. The prime minister described the measures as a step taken under “extreme compulsion.” He attributed the administrative intervention directly to the province’s…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}