Pakistan, Oct. 15 -- The Peshawar High Court (PHC) directed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Tuesday to administer the oath to Chief Minister-elect Sohail Afridi today by 4pm.

PHC Chief Justice (CJ) S.M. Attique Shah issued the directive, further instructing that KP Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati should administer the oath if the governor did not.

The court's decision, which was reserved earlier in the day, came on a PTI application seeking the nomination of the assembly speaker or any other person "considered appropriate" in place of the governor to administer the oath to Afridi.

Afridi's election on Monday was held amid uncertainty about the status of Ali Amin Gandapur's resignation from the provincial chief exe...