Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s husband, Muhammad Safdar, has responded to questions about the absence of photos of the couple from their son Junaid Safdar’s wedding, using humor to dismiss the controversy.

 

A video of Safdar went viral after a reporter asked why pictures of him with Maryam Nawaz did not appear on social media during wedding celebrations. Safdar replied with a light tone, “If you want, I can go to the Chief Minister right now and stand with her to take a picture and send it to you.”

 

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He added, “Pictures do not matter. The heart should stay connected.”

 

The reporter then asked, “Okay sir, is the heart connected?”

 

Safdar answered, “Very much.”

 

When the reporter pressed further and asked, “How much, sir?”

 

Safdar responded, “So much that when the heart beats here, it pumps there, and when it beats there, it pumps here.”

 

Junaid Safdar, grandson of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, married Shanzeh Rohale, daughter of PML-N leader Rohail Asghar. 

 

The wedding took place with family members and party leaders in attendance, but images of the parents of the groom posing together did not appear on social media or in news coverage.