MUZAFFARGARH: Lahore police on Sunday released the three sisters and their brother arrested in connection with a theft in the house of brother-in-law of former foreign minister Ms Hina Rabbani Khar from Sanawan, Muzaffargarh district, on Friday.

The four siblings worked as domestic help in the house of Mr Umer, who is Ms Khar’s brother in law.

On Friday, a team of Lahore police had arrested them from Sanawan in connection with a house theft in which jewellery and cash was taken away in January when the Khar family had gone to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah.

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Sources said that following the theft a case was registered against unidentified persons for stealing cash and gold ornaments from Mr Umer’s house in Lahore.

On Friday last, Lahore police had arrested the three sisters, Ayesha, Abida and Shahida and their brother who had been working in the house for the last 10 years.

Hameeda Begum, the mother of the arrested siblings, alleged the police harassed her family and arrested her daughters from her house in Sanawan town where they had come to attend the marriage of their sister.

Claiming her daughters were innocent, Hameeda said they had already been released by police after interrogation.

On Sunday, sources said the police released the girls and their brother on the personal guarantee of a local leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf who assured that he would produce them whenever required by the police.

Meanwhile, PPP MNA Malik Raza Rabbani Khar denied that his family was behind registration of a case against the four siblings, adding that his political opponents were spreading such “rumours”.

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2019