Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has hinted at the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on or any day after May 17.

Commenting on the Islamabad High Court’s decision which granted a two-week protective bail to the former prime minister in the Al-Qadir Trust case and banned his arrest in any other case till May 17, he said that if the court gave Mr Khan protective bail beyond that period, then he would not be arrested at all.

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