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On October 11, Pakistan's government used emergency powers to end PTI's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which critics read as the removal of the military establishment's main political rival, in a country with a weak democratic record and persistent rights-group concerns over press freedom and political repression. The move came as the party's campaign for Imran Khan's release gathered force. Officially it was a response to terrorism and a breakdown of law and order, but critics read it as the removal of the only institutional base of the establishment's main political rival, achieved by constitutional means rather than force. Pakistan imposes emergency rule over Imran Khan's provincial government www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakista...