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      <title>KP chief minister defiant as Centre keeps up governor's rule threat over PTI's Oct 4 march</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi insisted on Tuesday that PTI's Oct 4 march on Islamabad would go ahead, as the federal Centre kept up threats of governor's rule and an emergency in the province.</description>
      <author>Sarah Whitfield</author>
      <category>PTI</category>
      <category>Imran Khan</category>
      <category>Pakistan</category>
      <category>Islamabad</category>
      <category>Sohail Afridi</category>
      <source url="https://www.dawn.com/news/2033563/kp-cm-defiant-on-ptis-islamabad-march-as-centre-keeps-up-governors-rule-emergency-threat">Dawn</source>
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      <title>Pakistan opens SCO national coordinators meeting in Islamabad under 2026-27 chairmanship</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>National coordinators of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meet in Islamabad from September 28 to 30 in the first session under Pakistan's chairmanship of the SCO Council of Heads of State for 2026-27.</description>
      <author>James Calloway</author>
      <category>Pakistan</category>
      <category>SCO</category>
      <category>Islamabad</category>
      <category>diplomacy</category>
      <category>Foreign Office</category>
      <source url="https://www.dawn.com/news/2033039/sco-meeting-in-islamabad-from-sept-28-30-to-discuss-activities-under-pakistans-chairmanship">Dawn</source>
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      <title>President Zardari approves ordinance to protect Islamabad Safe City cameras</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>President Asif Ali Zardari has approved an ordinance protecting Islamabad's Safe City surveillance cameras, with fines of up to Rs2 million per camera for damage.</description>
      <author>Sarah Whitfield</author>
      <category>Pakistan</category>
      <category>Zardari</category>
      <category>Islamabad</category>
      <category>Safe City</category>
      <category>ordinance</category>
      <source url="https://www.dawn.com/news/2032789">Dawn</source>
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      <title>PTI 'still in two minds' over Sept 27 march as postponement talk splits party</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>PTI leader Naeem Haider Panjutha hints the September 27 march on Islamabad could be postponed if the government meets three demands — but the party's spokesperson denies any such proposal is being discussed.</description>
      <author>James Calloway</author>
      <category>Pakistan</category>
      <category>PTI</category>
      <category>Imran Khan</category>
      <category>Islamabad</category>
      <category>protest</category>
      <source url="https://www.dawn.com/news/2032491">Dawn; Daily Pakistan</source>
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      <title>PTI says it was offered jail perks for Imran Khan in exchange for calling off Islamabad march</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Dawn reports that PTI was offered backchannel concessions — moving Imran Khan to a hospital and Bushra Bibi to Banigala — if it calls off its September 27 march on Islamabad; the government denies any offer and says the capital will not be allowed to be stormed.</description>
      <author>James Calloway</author>
      <category>Pakistan</category>
      <category>PTI</category>
      <category>Imran Khan</category>
      <category>Islamabad</category>
      <category>Sohail Afridi</category>
      <category>protest</category>
      <source url="https://www.dawn.com/news/2032226">Dawn</source>
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      <title>Pakistan seals roads into Islamabad ahead of PTI march for Imran Khan's release</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Pakistan will shut the Islamabad–Peshawar and Islamabad–Dera Ismail Khan motorways and the Grand Trunk Road from Wednesday evening to stop a PTI protest march on the capital planned for 27 September.</description>
      <author>James Calloway</author>
      <category>Imran Khan</category>
      <category>PTI</category>
      <category>Islamabad</category>
      <category>Pakistan</category>
      <category>Mohsin Naqvi</category>
      <source url="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/23/pakistan-seals-islamabad-roads-before-protests-for-imran-khans-release?traffic_source=rss">Al Jazeera</source>
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      <title>Jamaat-e-Islami postpones Islamabad long march after PM Shehbaz's call, but vows protest continues</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>JI Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman announced in Multan that the party is postponing its Islamabad long march against the petroleum levy at the prime minister's request, until a meeting after PM Shehbaz Sharif returns from the US — but the protest movement and sit-ins continue.</description>
      <author>Priya Raman</author>
      <category>Jamaat-e-Islami</category>
      <category>Pakistan</category>
      <category>Shehbaz Sharif</category>
      <category>petroleum levy</category>
      <category>Islamabad</category>
      <source url="https://www.geo.tv/latest/683162-ji-postpones-islamabad-long-march-stays-in-multan-until-meeting-with-pm-shehbaz">Geo News</source>
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      <title>Punjab and Sindh send thousands of police to Islamabad ahead of PTI's 27 September march</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Thousands of police from Punjab and Sindh are deploying to Islamabad as the capital braces for PTI's planned 27 September march demanding Imran Khan's release.</description>
      <author>Tom Ellery</author>
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      <category>PTI</category>
      <category>Imran Khan</category>
      <category>Punjab police</category>
      <category>Sindh police</category>
      <category>protest</category>
      <source url="https://www.geo.tv/latest/683089-punjab-and-sindh-send-police-to-islamabad-as-capital-braces-for-pti-march">Geo News</source>
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