In this file photo, Jahangir Tareen speaks to the media in Lahore alongside Punjab lawmakers. DawnNewsTV/File
LAHORE: The Jahangir Khan Tareen group has gained strength and its aggressive narrative to seek ‘justice’ for the estranged Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader has brought the party’s federal as well as Punjab governments to their knees as both have invited the group for negotiations.
The Tareen group, which has swelled to over three dozen members from both the National and Punjab assemblies, posed a clear threat to the PTI governments in the province as well as at the Centre after it announced parliamentary leaders for both houses. The group had also threatened to boycott the budget sessions jeopardising the overall legitimacy of both the PTI governments.
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20 May 2021, 20:18 GMT+10
Islamabad [Pakistan] May 20, (ANI): Estranged leader of Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Jahangir Khan Tareen has formed a group of like-minded lawmakers in the lower house of parliament as well as the Punjab Assembly, The Express Tribune reported late on Tuesday.
According to the report, Raja Riaz will be the parliamentary leader of the group in the National Assembly, while Saeed Akbar Nawani will be the parliamentary leader in the Punjab Assembly.
Noman Langarial, one of the supporters of Tareen, who attended the dinner, said that 31 lawmakers attended the event. Member of the Punjab Assembly (MPA) Salman Naeem said during the dinner that supporters of Tareen decided to formally launch their own group, The Express Tribune reported.
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ISLAMABAD: PTI MNA of Jahangir Tareen Humkhayal Group (JTHG) Raja Riaz Ahmad Wednesday accused Prime Ministerâs Accountability Adviser Shahzad Akbar of targeting the members of the ruling as well as other parties, saying he had failed to perform.
Speaking in the Geo News programme Capital Talk, Riaz said the JTHG had its parliamentary leader in the Punjab Assembly, and warned that a parliamentary leader could also be made in the National Assembly if excesses were committed at the federal level.
He said they had their group in the National Assembly also, but not a parliamentary leader as the assurances given by Prime Minister Imran Khan were being realised at the federal level. Barrister Ali Zafar was having long meetings with the group members and patiently listening to them, Riaz added.
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LAHORE: Banking and sessions’ court Wednesday extended interim bail of Jahangir Khan Tareen and his son Ali Khan Tareen till May 31 in cases of alleged corporate fraud, fake accounts and money-laundering, filed by the FIA against the Tareens. Tareens attended court proceedings accompanied by provincial minister Nauman Langrial, adviser Faisal Jabwana, MNAs Raja Riaz, Sami Gilani, Kh Shiraz and Mubeen Alam along with MPAs Zawar Warraich, Asif Majeed, Nazeer Baloch, Ghulam Rasul Sanga, Khurram Leghari, Sh Naeem, Muhammad Ameen and Aslam Bharwana.
According to the FIR against the Tareen family, the FIA stated that during the course of inquiry, a fraudulent and premeditated scheme of misappropriation of public shareholders’ money by Jahangir Khan Tareen surfaced, whereby the JDW (a public limited listed company-CEO Jahangir Tareen) fraudulently transferred Rs3.14 billion to an associated private company, Farooqi Pulp Mills Ltd Gujrat (FPML), owned by his so
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