Addressing the controversy related to sloganeering at Quaid's mausoleum during his visit on Sunday, Safdar said that he wanted to send a message to those who had called Fatima Jinnah a traitor by raising slogans for Madar-i-Millat.

It's worth mentioning that PPP's founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, while campaigning for Ayub during the presidential election in December 1964 against Fatima Jinnah, had accused Ms Jinnah of being a CIA agent.

Safdar's comments come a day after he was arrested in Karachi by Sindh police from a private hotel after a case was registered, on the complaints of PTI workers, against 200 people including Maryam Nazawz, Capt Safdar, and other PML-N leaders at the Brigade Police Station in Karachi for violating the sanctity of Mazar-e-Quaid and chanting slogans while he visited Quaid's mausoleum with Maryam Nawaz.

The case was registered under the Quaid-i-Azam’s Mazar (Protection and Maintenance) Ordinance of 1971, which explicitly forbids political activities within the premises of the mausoleum.

The PML-N leader was granted bail by a judicial magistrate in Karachi on the same day.