Militancy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa did not begin on 11 October. The emergency did. That Sunday, President Asif Ali Zardari, acting on the advice of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, imposed an emergency and governor’s rule on the province, citing the provincial government’s ‘deliberate disengagement from the fight against terrorism.’ By Monday, the elected chief minister, Sohail Afridi, was in detention, schools in Peshawar and three other districts were shut, and the internet acro