What do emergency and governor rule in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa mean?

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s federal government has taken direct control of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the northwestern province until now governed by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. President Asif Ali Zardari signed a proclamation on Sunday, on the advice of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, imposing a state of emergency and declaring that the provincial government could no longer function in accordance with the Constitution, the legal basis for governor’s rule. On Monday, junior interior minister Talal Chaudhry said that the province’s chief minister Sohail Afridi had been placed under detention.