LAHORE: Police arrested Aleema Khan, the sister of Pakistan’s jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan at her house in Lahore, a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Punjab spokesman said on Sunday, ahead of a planned protest march by the party on September 27. A notification issued by Lahore’s district administration said she has been arrested and sent to jail for 30 days. “According to intelligence reports, her presence at any public place will pose a grave threat to public safety, ” the district administration said. Imran Khan’s party has organised a march to Islamabad next week demanding his release. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Saturday that the government would do everything it could to stop the protest march. A close aide to Khan, Zulfi Bukhari, described the arrest of Khan’s sister as “absolutely despicable”. “The fear of the 27th protest is clearly taking its toll, ” Bukhari added.



