Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday reviewed the country’s political and security situation amid reports that the federal government was considering imposing an emergency in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK). Key government and political figures attended the meeting at the President’s House, according to an official statement. It said separate sessions of the National Assembly and Senate would be convened on October 13.

The meeting comes amid an ongoing protest march by supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi.