Two sisters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, Dr Uzma Khan and Noreen Niazi, were released from Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore on Thursday after the detention order holding them was withdrawn ahead of a court hearing on their challenge. A third sister, Aleema Khan, remains in prison under a separate order. Their lawyer, Rana Mudassar Umer, said on X that both women had arrived home safely. They walked out of the jail at about 2 p.m. after spending 53 days in custody, according to the family. The lawyer told Reuters the detention orders had been suspended, and Dawn and AFP reported that the authorities withdrew the joint order ahead of the scheduled hearing.
The three sisters were detained in September under the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, on the orders of the Lahore deputy commissioner, a week before a planned march on Islamabad by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party to demand his release. The government said the sisters could be a threat to law and order, and the march did not go ahead. The detention was first ordered for 30 days and then extended for another 30, and the sisters challenged it in the Lahore High Court. During the detention, Noreen Niazi was moved on October 28 from the jail to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology after suffering high blood pressure. Lawyers are also seeking the withdrawal of Aleema Khan’s detention order. Imran Khan has been in prison since August 2023, in cases his party calls politically motivated.
The photograph in this video is a file photo of Imran Khan at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington on July 23, 2019, credited to Zark News. It does not show the sisters or their release. The other screens are original Zark News graphics and are labeled as a Zark News illustration.
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Sources: Reuters; Dawn; AFP • November 12, 2026. File photo: Zark News. Zark News illustration.
