Now that emergency and Governor’s Rule have been implemented in KP, after considerable peace offerings to the former PTI government and its leaders, repeated offers of dialogue, multiple attempts at reconciliation by the government and the Pakistan People’s Party, and repeated reminders from the federal government to the PTI provincial government to focus on the safety and security of the province rather than making daily announcements of protests, marches, strikes and unrest for the release of their leader, it is apparent that things will go in the right direction from this point onwards. The focus of the new KP administration now seems to be on improving the security situation in the province first, and the rest will follow automatically. They believe economic and social growth is only possible if borders are secured. But this seems to be a difficult path, as the Taliban-led TTP has already condemned the emergency and threatened to fight back, which clearly shows why they felt comfortable with the previous regime and were able to attack our forces freely while the PTI provincial government’s priorities were different.But there is a long way to........

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