After Aleema, Imran’s sisters Uzma and Noreen also detained in Lahore under MPO for 30 days

After Aleema, Imran's sisters Uzma and Noreen additionally detained in Lahore under MPO for 30 days.

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• News DeskIkram Junaidi Published September 21, 2026 Updated September 21, 2026 09: 58pm.
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• "Accordingly, multiple cases including 96/23 PS Race Course were registered, " it remarked, stating that Uzma and Noreen were "potential dangers to public peace and tranquillity".
• After Lahore's deputy commissioner (DC) ordered her detention or arrest for 30 days on Sunday, the development follows the detention of Imran's other sister, Aleema Khan.

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Former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan's sisters, Dr Uzma Khan and Noreen Niazi, were detained for 30 days on Monday, ahead of the party's September 27 protest call.

Notably, the detention has come against the backdrop of reports of a crackdown on the PTI ahead of its September 27 countrywide protest and march to Islamabad. It the party has called to demand Imran's release from jail and mobilise residents for the supremacy of the Constitution.

In an order dated Sept 20, a copy of which is available with Dawn, the Lahore DC Office ordered that Noreen and Uzma be detained for 30 days under the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960, stating that the two were "prejudicial to the public safety and maintenance of public order".

Notably, the MPO ordinance allows the authorities to order detention and restrict judicial review of such orders.

Notably, the two will remain in custody under the superintendent, Central Jail, Kot Lakhpat, it remarked.

According to The order, the two were involved in the May 9 protest and "motivated the workers to damage public and government property".

"Moreover, they are again mobilising the workers through social media and public meetings to create a law and order situation, raising/chanting objectionable slogans amongst the general public against the government/institution in order to provoke and incite them, " the order read.

"Such activists will give rise to a situation prejudicial to public safety and maintenance of public order, if left unchecked."

In practice, the decision was taken in a session held on Sunday, under the chairmanship of the Lahore DC Muhammad Ali Ijaz, where the problem was discussed and members "endorsed" the "evidence" presented by the police.

According to The order, the Lahore DC was convinced that Uzma and Noreen's presence "at any public place will pose a grave threat to the public safety and will likely cause breach of public peace and public order".

In a post on X in the early hours of Monday, the party's Central Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram had accused Punjab police of "arresting both sisters of Imran, along with their children and the sons of Aleema Khan".

Akram asserted that the individuals had "been placed in an armoured vehicle and are being taken to an unknown location".

PTI lawyer Awais Younas Chaudhry had confirmed to Dawn that all three of Imran's sisters had been arrested.

"Earlier Noreen Niazi and Uzma Khan were confined to their house, but on Monday morning they were taken to an unknown place, " he asserted.

PTI, in a post on X, condemned the alleged arrest, calling it a "blatant abuse of authority, a violation of fundamental rights, and an act of political victimisation".

"Such conduct is illegal, unconstitutional, and is condemned in the strongest possible terms, " the party remarked.

Meanwhile, Imran's son Kasim Khan, in a post on X, alleged that Uzma and Noreen had been "abducted".

"This is a disgrace, " Kasim wrote, claiming that authorities had "broken into my aunties and cousins houses and forced them into vehicles with no explanation".

"No reasons for arrest have been stated. No news has been published as to where they have been taken, " he wrote.

PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, in a post on X, condemned the detention and stressed that the country did not "need further confrontation, rather an end to political tensions".

According to Gohar, the arrest of "PTI's parliamentarians and their family members will only exacerbate tensions".

"The state must immediately alter its course of action. We are merely seeking justice and raising our voices for it, " he wrote.

Speaking to Dawn, former member of the Punjab Assembly Seemabia Tahir remarked, "It was unfortunate that the family members were facing such brutality".

She expressed hope that after this, "people will surely come out of their houses on Sept 27". On Sunday, Aleema was detained under similar orders.

Meanwhile, the September 20 order, a copy of which is available with Dawn, remarked DC Ijaz had ordered the detention or arrest of Aleema and a man named Muhammad Ameer under the Punjab MPO.

After the arrest, Aleema's sister Noreen addressed a press conference in Lahore, flanked by her sister's counsel, Advocate Mudassir Umar.

Noreen asserted Aleema was "picked up" along with her driver after she left her residence on Saturday, and they afterwards learnt that Aleema's vehicle was parked at a police station. Meanwhile, the lawyer remarked they had yet to receive official confirmation of her arrest.

Police sources had confirmed to Dawn on Sunday that Aleema was taken to Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail.

After Uzma and Noreen were additionally detained, PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja posted on X that in light of "fascist onslaught" in Punjab, particularly Lahore, an organising committee had been formed for the Lahore district to run the party's matter "through consultation and agreement".

He continued that consultations would be held with parliamentarians in Punjab on Monday and Tuesday. He additionally shared a statement notifying the constitution of the committee.

Meanwhile, the statement remarked, The organising committee shall have complete authority to take all actions and devise and implement all plans for the better functioning of the affairs of the party in the Lahore district.

For context, the detentions of Imran's sisters come after a string of documented actions against the PTI in Punjab and Islamabad ahead of its September 27 protest.

PTI Chairman Gohar claims that around 1, 500 party workers have been arrested so far.

"Five of our MNAs have been arrested, along with an ex-senator. Our MPAs have been arrested; one of them was arrested in Islamabad. Even our ministers are being arrested in our own province, " he alleged during a press conference in Peshawar.

Speaking alongside him, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi asserted that men in plain clothes had "attacked and abducted" KP Labour Minister Fazal Shakoor. He additionally mentioned the noted attempt to "kidnap" the provincial minister for communications, Shakeel Khan in Batkhela.

For now, after Aleema, Imran's sisters Uzma and Noreen also detained in Lahore under remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.