Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s party said on Monday that his three sisters had been arrested.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Sunday the protest call was illegal. Khan’s party has announced a protest call for 27 September. Khan has been in jail since 2023 and was sentenced late last year, along with his wife, to 17 years in jail on corruption charges they both deny.
“We will not allow them to block roads and disrupt people’s lives,” Tarar said.
Imran Khan’s 3 Sisters Arrested Ahead Of His Party’s Planned Protest
The purported arrests involved Khan’s sisters Aleema Khan, Dr Uzma Khan and Noreen Khan. Punjab police did not respond to AFP’s request for comment. Currently, the cricketer-turned-politician is lodged at the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
The deputy commissioner of Lahore on Sunday passed two separate orders, the copies of which were seen by AFP, for the three sisters’ 30-day detention under the Maintenance of Public Order law of Punjab province. The 73-year-old Khan, who was also a former Pakistan cricket captain, was prime minister from 2018 to 2022 before being removed in a no-confidence vote during a political crisis over tensions between his government and Pakistan’s powerful military establishment. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) Earlier reporting noted: ‘PTI’s drama will never achieve anything’: Pak minister Naqvi warns Imran Khan’s party ahead of Islamabad march Mohsin Naqvi warns Imran Khan’s PTI Earlier reporting noted: Pakistan interior minister Mohsin Naqvi on Monday warned jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ahead of the party’s planned protest in Islamabad, saying it “can never achieve anything through such drama. ” Earlier reporting noted: The PTI plans to march towards the capital on September 27 to demand the release of its founder Imran Khan, who has been in jail since 2023 after being arrested following his conviction in a corruption case.
“Punjab police have raided Aleema Khan’s home and have abducted Imran Khan’s other two sisters, his nephews and their children,” Zulfi Bukhari, a spokesman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, said on the social media platform X. “Khan’s sisters and their children were taken into custody, but the children were released,” PTI’s information secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram told AFP. “All three sisters have been sent to Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore,” he added.
