LAHORE, March 10: The Jahangir Khan Tareen (JKT) group has announced its dissociation from the provincial ministers who met Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The spokesperson of the JKT group said in the statement today that the provincial ministers including Asif Nakai and Akhtar Malik were no longer part of the like-minded group led by Jahangir Khan Tareen.
Saeed Akbar Noorani, the lawmaker of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the Punjab Assembly from JKT group, added that Samsam Bukhari and Hashim Dogar were not members of the group anymore. The lawmaker said that the decision of dissociating from the said members was taken on the instructions of Jahangir Khan Tareen. Earlier in the day, PM Imran Khan met two provincial ministers, Sardar Asif Nakai and Samsam Bukhari from the Jahangir Tareen group during his visit to Lahore amid the political developments in Punjab province. The prime minister during the meeting said that it was for the first time that development projects were launched across the Punjab province, contrary to the past when the entire budget was spent on particular cities. -NNI