The Islamabad High Court Bar Association has condemned KP governor rule, according to a post on X. The post says the association called the imposition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa an attack on the public mandate and on democratic values. In Pakistan, governor's rule means the federal centre administers a province through the governor. The post mentions a High Court secretary, but the words available do not include a full statement from that official.
Bar association condemnation
@rizwanghilzai shared the message, which presents the condemnation as the association's position. The extract does not give a resolution number, a vote, or the date of a meeting. A bar body attached to the Islamabad High Court speaks for lawyers who practise in that court. This article reports the condemnation as it appears in the post, which Zaviya has not matched against a separate bar document.
Reactions from PTI accounts
The official PTI account accused the Pakistan Peoples Party of weakening provincial autonomy while claiming to defend democracy. The post refers to the dismissal of elected provincial governments in Balochistan in 1973 and extends the charge to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. No reply from the PPP is quoted there.
A post from InsafPK said unelected people had been placed over the province, rejected the decision, and pledged to keep resisting it. The post used the hashtag Governor Rule Unacceptable. It also abuses an unnamed person; that insult is not repeated here.
An old poem and street posts
A post by @siasatpk says a poem Bilawal Bhutto Zardari shared in 2022 is spreading again. The version in the post begins, "Let's impose Governor's Rule. Not tomorrow, today." The account says he shared it before the no-confidence, not that he has issued it again this week.
Other users are posting local claims around the same argument over KP governor rule. One account describes a video from the previous evening in Banoon, at Mazidher Chowk Bazaar, in which young PTI supporters danced and held banners calling for an end to "13 years of rule". A different user said a lack of internet had stopped them congratulating PTI supporters. The hashtag یوم نجات appeared as trending. These posts do not show the size of any gathering, or confirm a province-wide internet failure.
What is still unconfirmed
The posts describe a dispute over the measure. They do not include an official order, a notification from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, or the governor's name. Beyond the bar post, the PTI criticism, and the recirculated poem, the claims are unconfirmed.
Zaviya's earlier reporting is published separately: the constitutional step, the official defence, and a related report.
