Rawalpindi police take Imran Khan’s sisters into custody after 10-hour sit-in outside Adiala Jail

Rawalpindi police took the sisters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan into custody on Tuesday, ending a 10-hour-long sit-in outside Adiala Jail. The three sisters, Aleema, Dr Uzma, and Noreen were transferred to Chakri and are expected to return home with their cousin Qasim Zaman.

The sit-in had been staged near the Factory Checkpoint after the PTI founder and his family members, along with party leaders, were denied permission to meet at Adiala Jail on the day of a scheduled visit.

Police engaged in multiple negotiations with the protesters, but Aleema refused to end the sit-in, insisting that a meeting be scheduled for the following Tuesday.

Around midnight, authorities first dispersed male party workers involved in the protest. Subsequently, the women’s police unit took the sisters into custody, placed them in a police van, and transferred them toward Chakri. Following the action, the 10-hour-long sit-in was brought to an end, and remaining workers dispersed peacefully.

In a statement on social media platform X, PTI claimed that police violently detained Imran Khan’s sisters while they were sitting peacefully outside Adiala Jail.

The statement also alleged that Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial minister Meena Khan Afridi, MNA Shahid Khattak, and other party office holders and workers, including several women, were subjected to violence and taken into custody.