Karachi: PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has claimed that the arrest of her husband and former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's son-in-law retired Captain Mohammad Safdar, was aimed at dividing the opposition's anti-government alliance.
"Don't blackmail me through my family and people around me. Come arrest me if you have courage," The Express Tribune quoted Maryam Nawaz as saying at a presser here where she was flanked by other the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) alliance's leaders, including Maulana Fazlur Rehman of JUI-F and Raja Pervaiz Ashraf of PPP.
Her remarks came after she tweeted early Monday morning that Safdar had been arrested from a hotel they were staying at in Karachi.
She claimed that the police "barged in" while she was "sleeping".
His arrest came a day after Safdar raised anti-government slogans at Muhammad Ali Jinnah mausoleum on Sunday before the Pakistan Democratic Movement's (PDM) second power show in Karachi, reports Dawn news.
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An FIR was registered against Maryam Nawaz, Safdar and 200 others for violating the sanctity of the mausoleum.