LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday summoned Punjab’s home secretary and the superintendent of Kot Lakhpat jail to appear in person with reports on a petition seeking the release of three sisters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, whose lawyer said they had been kept in custody despite the expiry of their detention orders. LHC Justice Abher Gul Khan directed the officials to appear before the court on October 28. The petition, filed by Shahrez Khan, the son of Imran’s sister Aleema Khan, has sought the production and release of Aleema, Uzma Khan and Noreen Niazi. The three sisters remain in custody at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail despite the expiry of their 30-day detention orders, their lawyer Rana Mudassar Umar told the court. He said the orders expired on October 19 and 20 respectively. They were detained under the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Ordinance, 1960, ahead of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s planned but aborted march on Islamabad last month. During Thursday’s hearing, Justice Khan asked the petitioner’s counsel why he had not made the Lahore deputy commissioner a respondent in the case, given that the official had issued the detention orders.