Pakistan’s incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party on Monday filed an amended petition in the Peshawar High Court, challenging the imposition of emergency and Governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on constitutional grounds.The amended petition, filed by the party chairman, barrister Gohar Ali Khan, argued that declaring an emergency without a provincial assembly resolution violated constitutional requirements. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was the only province where Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was in power.The amended petition was filed days after both houses of Pakistan’s Parliament approved resolutions endorsing the emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Providing ‘whatever support needed’ to Saudi: MilitaryPakistan military’s spokesperson Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has said his country was providing “whatever support is needed” to protect Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty.


