LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) leader and son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Captain (retd) Safdar was arrested late Monday evening, party leader Ata Tarar said.
According to PML-N spokesman Marriyum Aurangzeb, Mohammad Safdar was arrested on a charge of “hate speech”.
He was arrested on the motorway while he was returning to Lahore from Bhera.
Police had registered a case against him on Oct 11 for speaking against state institutions.
Taking to Twitter, the former prime minister’s personal physician Dr Adnan Malik stated that Nawaz required immediate in-hospital care.
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif said that the government’s act of not shifting the former prime minister earlier to a hospital for medical care was the worst example of political vengeance and insensitivity.
“If anything happens to Nawaz Sharif, we will blame Imran Khan for it,” he said.
