In the middle of the night, the paramilitary force Rangers (pretending to be the local police) had broken into Maryam Nawaz’s hotel room in Karachi on the pretext of arresting her husband Captain Safdar on an absurd charge.
This caused anger in the entire PDM at the brazen attempt to divide the political parties and thus sabotage the movement, as a woman politician of the PMLN had ostensibly been humiliated by the People’s Party’s government in Sindh.
However, the opposition political parties turned out to be wilier than the ruling junta and immediately decided to expose it.
This revelation by the Chief Minister of Sindh was a bombshell. This was a charge sheet against the army chief and the ISI chief for having committed another act of treason, another violation of their oaths, another violation of the Constitution.
The next day, the Sindh government announced a high powered inquiry into what had happened. The intent was clear, that matters will not be left at mere announcements, revelations and press conferences and the military’s interference in politics and coercive habits would now be taken head on.