Pakistan's army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa ordered an inquiry into the alleged abduction of Sindh police chief to force him to order the arrest of the exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law from his hotel room in Karachi. Amid the Army chief directing the Karachi Corps Commander to immediately inquire into the circumstances, a tweet by The International Herald claimed that a 'civil war' had broken out in Karachi.