RAWALPINDI: Scores of PML-N workers surrounded Captain (retd.) Muhammad Safdar as a NAB team arrived in Rawalpindi to arrest the convicted son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. 

Senior PML-N leader, who was a candidate from Mansehra, reached Rawalpindi in a rally  and was leading the procession when the NAB team detained him.

Dozens of PML-N workers surrounded Capt Safdar after he was taken into custody by the NAB's team. 

Safdar, who was convicted in Avenfield reference along with his wife and father-in-law on Friday, said in an audio message he is going to surrender himself at a city chose by his party: the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

In the the message recorded in Hindku language, Safdar said he had earlier decided to surrender in Mansehra, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkwa 's Hazara division, but now he chose another city decided by the party. He, however, didn't disclose name of the city.

The former MNA requested his supporters to back Sardar Yousuf during the upcoming election, expressing the hope that the PMLN would sweep the entire Hazara division in the upcoming election.

He also rejected the impression that he might be backing some candidates other than that of the PMLN.

The accountability court in Islamabad sentenced him to one year imprisonment.