Noreen Niazi moved from Lahore jail to hospital due to high blood pressure: lawyer

Imran Khan's sister, Noreen Niazi, was transferred from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Wednesday due to high blood pressure, according to her lawyer Rana Mudassar Umer. Noreen, along with her two other sisters, Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan, have been detained since September 21 under the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960 (MPO).

They are currently serving the second term of a 30-day detention, with the order extended on October 7. The lawyer claimed that the sisters have not been informed about their deteriorating health condition and were denied medicines by the jail authorities. The jail officer refuted these allegations, stating that medicines and daily-use items are provided to the inmates.

No family members or counsel have been allowed to meet the detained sisters, and the lawyer has filed multiple petitions seeking such meetings, which have been ignored by the Lahore DC. The sisters were detained in September as the PTI prepared for a planned protest march towards Islamabad. Their detention was set to expire on October 19 for Aleema and October 20 for Noreen and Uzma, but it was extended on October 7.

The Lahore High Court had earlier turned down a request to suspend the preventive detention notifications issued against Noreen and Uzma. Recently, Imran Khan's cousin, Qasim Zaman, was also taken into custody when he visited Adiala jail to meet the ex-premier.