{
  "id": 8888743,
  "title": "Sisters of jailed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/sisters-of-jailed-ex-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-arrested-8888743",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-21T08:29:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2026/09/21/sisters-of-jailed-pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-arrested"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's sisters - Aleema Khan, Dr Uzma Khan, and Noreen Khan - have been arrested by Pakistani law enforcement agencies in Lahore, the capital of Punjab province. This follows a raid on Aleema Khan's home, where her other two sisters, nephews, and their children were also taken into custody, according to Zulfi Bukhari, a spokesman for Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.\n\nAll three sisters have been sent to Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. The deputy commissioner of Lahore issued two separate orders for their 30-day detention under the Maintenance of Public Order law. However, the children of the arrested sisters were released.\n\nThe deputy commissioner's orders came after two separate court rulings, as seen by AFP. Khan's party has called for a protest on September 27, but information minister Attaullah Tarar has called the protest call illegal and stated that they will not allow it to disrupt people's lives.\n\nImran Khan has been in jail since 2023 and was sentenced to 17 years in prison for corruption charges he and his wife deny. The 73-year-old, a former cricket captain, served as Pakistan's Prime Minister from 2018 to 2022 before being removed in a no-confidence vote amid a political crisis.",
  "summary": "Lahore's deputy commissioner passed two separate orders for the 30-day detention of Imran Khan's three sisters under Punjab's Maintenance of Public Order law.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Times of India",
        "title": "'Forced them into vehicles': Imran Khan’s son alleges aunts, cousins 'abducted'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/forced-them-into-vehicles-imran-khans-son-alleges-aunts-cousins",
        "published": "2026-09-21T06:59:25.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "Imran Khan's three sisters arrested as Pakistan opposition plans protest",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/imran-khans-three-sisters-arrested-as-pakistan-opposition-plans",
        "published": "2026-09-21T08:19:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Sisters of jailed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/sisters-of-jailed-ex-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-arrested",
        "published": "2026-09-21T08:29:12.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}