KARACHI: Senior PML-N leader and son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Captain (retd) Safdar was arrested from a hotel in Karachi on Monday.
“Police broke my room door at the hotel I was staying at in Karachi and arrested Capt. Safdar,” PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz claimed on Twitter.
The PML-N leader was taken into custody after he was booked in a case pertaining to the violation of the sanctity of the Quaid-e-Azam’s Mazar where a day earlier he had chanted the slogan “vote ko izzat do (honour the vote)” and urged people to join him.
Party workers and supporters had responded to Safdar’s call and chanted along for an extended period of time as Maryam Nawaz and party spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, among others, looked on.
The move was met by a fierce reaction by government representatives who not only demanded an apology, but approached the police, asking them to initiate legal action against all those who participated in the act.
The Quaid-e-Azam’s Mazar is protected by a set of special laws that prohibit all kinds of political activities within its premises.
