Noreen Khanum Niazi, sister of the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan, has stated that two organisations have approached her to purchase her plaster cast signed by her brother.
Speaking to journalists on Tuesday after a hearing of the ToshaKhana case, Noreen Khanum said that both the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) expressed interest in purchasing the autographed plaster cast.
Responding to a journalist’s question about whether she would sell the cast to them or gift it to them, Noreen Khanum Niazi said: “Obviously, I will give it as a gift as both organisations belong to my brother,” noting that If Khan’s organisation auctioned the plaster for charity, “it would be great.”
She said, “It was me who asked my brother to give his autograph on my wrist’s plaster cast.”
On November 6, during Noreen Khanum’s meeting with her brother at Adiala Jail Rawalpindi, Imran Khan had signed the cast on her wrist twice.
After meeting with Imran Khan, she mentioned that half the plaster cast would go to Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, and the other half would go to the National University of Modern Languages (NUML).
Earlier, Imran Khan’s signed plaster cast had been preserved by YouTuber Sami Ibrahim, who termed it an “achievement and memorial.”
Former PM Khan was arrested from his residence in Zaman Park, Lahore, shortly after his conviction in the Toshakhana case in August last year and has been in jail since then on multiple charges.
Currently, he is held in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail under high security and with B-class facilities due to his status as a former prime minister.