Electroweak Penguins , Final State Interaction Phases and CP Violation in B → Kπ Decays

The recently observed B − → K − π 0 , ¯ K 0 π − and ¯ B 0 → K − π + decay modes appear to have nearly equal branching ratios. This suggests that tree and electroweak penguins play an important role, and inclusion of the latter improves agreement between factorization calculation and experimental data.