{
  "id": 18282340,
  "title": "FCC bars PHC from hearing cases related to PTI workers' preventive detention",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/fcc-bars-phc-from-hearing-cases-related-to-pti-workers-preventive-18282340",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-05T09:28:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn",
    "slug": "dawn",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2042319/fcc-bars-phc-from-hearing-cases-related-to-pti-workers-preventive-detention"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has barred the Peshawar High Court (PHC) from hearing cases related to the preventive detention of PTI workers and activists under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, following the imposition of emergency and governor’s rule. The directive was issued by a two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Aminuddin Khan and including Justice Aamer Farooq. The PHC had issued interim orders for detainees without any report from the provincial government explaining the reasons for their detention. Over 60 appeals challenging these orders have been fixed before the FCC, which has restrained the high court from proceeding further and directed the parties to file their pleas before the superior court.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}