Perilous misstep

THE federal government on Sunday made good on its threat to dismiss an elected government and impose governor’s rule and emergency in KP. The president obliged. The head of state, the only civilian elected twice to that office, has now imposed governor’s rule three times: Punjab in 2009, Balochistan in 2013, and now KP — though the ruling PML-N is the main driver behind the latest move. His party, the PPP, has done so six times in the short history of Pakistani democracy, the others being in 1973 (Balochistan), 1975 (the then NWFP), and 1994 (again, KP). There is, therefore, nothing novel…