Retired Captain Mohammad Safdar was granted bail on Monday by a judicial magistrate against surety bonds of Rs100,000 in Karachi. The news was first broken earlier by PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz in a press conference, where she was accompanied by JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman, PPP leader Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and other political leaders.
“[Safdar] and I will be leaving Karachi together because just now Marriyum Aurangzeb has told me that he has been granted bail,” Maryam said. Maryam had tweeted early Monday morning that her husband, retired Captain Mohammad Safdar had been arrested by the police from their hotel in Karachi.
The PML-N leader was being kept at the Aziz Bhatti police station and was later produced before the City Courts, where the police asked the judge to grant physical remand of Safdar.
Meanwhile, Safdar had moved the court to secure a post-arrest bail. The atmosphere outside the courtroom was charged as supporters of PML-N and PTI, who had gathered outside for Safadr’s hearing, chanted slogans against each other.
He was arrested a day after he raised slogans at the Quaid’s mausoleum before the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) second power show at Bagh-i-Jinnah.
