Former PM Imran Khan's Three Sisters Arrested In Pakistan

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's party said on Monday that his three sisters had been arrested.

"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 Media. "All three sisters have been sent to Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore," he



added.

The purported arrests involved Khan's sisters Aleema Khan, Dr Uzma Khan and Noreen Khan. 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. 

Punjab police did not respond to AFP's request for comment. Khan's party has announced a protest call for 27 September. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Sunday the protest call was illegal. "We will not allow them to block roads and disrupt people's lives," Tarar said.