ISLAMABAD: A decision to give district officials in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province greater authority to detain people without trial could be used to target political opponents, former security officials and legal experts warned on Thursday, amid tensions over the imposition of governor’s rule earlier this month. Governor Faisal Karim Kundi has delegated powers under Section 3(1) of the West Pakistan Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960, to deputy commissioners (DCs)



