Coalition parties criticise Imran for 'avoiding arrest'.

FAISALABAD -- Leaders of the ruling coalition parties on Sunday reacted to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan's possible arrest, stating that the deposed prime minister is 'afraid to get arrested'.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz took to Twitter to criticise Imran and said that 'today the country knows the difference between a leader and a jackal'.

'Even if the lion is innocent, he holds his daughter's hand and comes to Pakistan from London to give his arrest and if a jackal is a thief, he hides by making other people's daughters a shield for fear of arrest!' she said.

In another tweet, PML-N's chief organiser asked the party supremo Nawaz Sharif to lend some of his courage to Imran.

Meanwhile, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said that the 'day the government decides to arrest Imran, it will not be a difficult task to do so and he will be arrested within no time'.

'If the government had wanted, he [Imran]...

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