Rawalpindi(July 08, 2018): Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar — wanted to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) since the Avenfield properties reference verdict on Friday — appeared at a party rally in Rawalpindi on Sunday.
Local leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) were leading a party rally on Liaquat Road when Safdar disembarked from a vehicle and joined the rally.
PML-N leaders Senator Chaudhry Tanveer and Malik Shakeel Awan, among others, were leading the rally and brought Safdar into their fold. 
Safdar said he is here to court arrest among his supporters. He added that the time has come to decide which the path the country has to tread.
He added that Nawaz Sharif is fighting for the rights of common man.
Sources said at the moment there is no police presence at the rally to arrest Safdar.
However, NAB Deputy Director Chaudhry Asghar is leading a six-vehicle team to arrest Safdar, according to sources. 
NAB teams plan to arrest Safdar at Gordon College, sources revealed.
Moreover, NAB officials said Safdar is a convict and anyone assisting his evasion from the authorities can also be arrested.
Sources also said the Punjab Police high-ups have been instructed to assist the NAB team in their effort to nab Safdar.
Safdar’s Audio Message:
Earlier today, Captain Retried Safdar on Sunday has announced to surrender himself before NAB.
In an audio message, captain retired Safdar has said that its demand of his pride to surrender himself before NAB.
Safdar in his audio message released on Sunday said that according to the party’s decision he is going to surrender himself in front of NAB from another city.
A team of the anti-graft watchdog is in Mansehra to arrest Capt (r) Safdar Awan, day after he had been convicted in Avenfield reference along with his wife Maryam Nawaz and Nawaz Sharif.
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The Bureau had contacted caretaker government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa seeking help in apprehension of Safdar.
Earlier, the name of Sharif’s son-in-law was placed on the black list, which means he would be barred from leaving the country.
The step was taken after interior ministry recommended to put names of Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and Captain (r) Safdar on Exit Control List (ECL).
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On Friday, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was convicted and sentenced to prison in absentia by the accountability court, in a verdict that is likely to further disrupt an already chaotic campaign for national elections this month.
The sentence, 10 years in prison and a fine of 8 million pounds, or $10.6 million, came almost a year after Supreme Court removed Sharif from office and less than five months after the court barred him from holding office for life.
The case stemmed from the Panama Papers leak that disclosed expensive and undeclared property owned by the Sharif family in London.
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The verdict marked a further fall for the PML-N supremo, who has been Pakistan’s prime minister three times but never completed a term.
From the start of the ex-PM’s legal troubles in 2016, Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif and her husband, Muhammad Safdar, were also convicted, with
Maryam sentenced to seven years in prison and a fine of 2 million pounds and Safdar sentenced to one year in prison.
The court also ordered the seizure of the Sharif family’s four apartments at Avenfield House, a luxury building next to Hyde Park in London.
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