Centre done mulling emergency, option to be availed if KP does not cooperate on counterterrorism: minister

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said on Friday that the Centre had finished deliberating on the imposition of an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, warning that a lack of provincial government cooperation on counter-terrorism would lead it to enforce a state of emergency and then eradicate terrorism. The minister made these remarks on Geo New s programme ‘ Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath ’, during which he also refused to confirm reports that a high-level meeting was expected on Saturday to decide on the imposition of an emergency in KP. “The matter of any decisive meeting…