Sindh govt has no role in Capt Safdar’s arrest: Ghani

By Muhammad YaseenPublished On 05 Jan 2023

KARACHI: Capt Safdar arrest from a Karachi hotel, Ghani has said Capt Safdar not arrested on Sindh govt instructions and provincial govt has no role in his arrest.

Responding to PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz’s tweet in which she said police barged in her hotel room and arrested her husband, Ghani said: “Whatever Capt Safdar did at Mazar-e-Quaid was uncalled for but the way the police arrested him is condemnable.”

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“Capt Safdar was not arrested on the Sindh government’s instruction,” he clarified, adding the police’s move is aimed at causing a rift among opposition parties part of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), which they will foil.

Safdar was arrested by the police from a Karachi hotel where he along with his wife Maryam was staying for allegedly violating the sanctity of the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah.

The case was registered against PML-N leaders, including party vice president Maryam Nawaz, Safdar and 200 others at the Brigade Police Station for sloganeering at the Quaid’s mausoleum.