LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: PTI leader Fayaz-ul Hassan Chohan has finally confirmed a secret meeting between Shehbaz Sharif and Jahangir Tareen amid reports of increasing links of Opposition parties with the ruling PTI’s allies and disgruntled Jahangir Khan Tareen group.
Speaking in Geo Pakistan programme, Fayaz-ul-Hasan Chohan said that Tareen has fulfilled his duties as PTI’s general secretary very well.
Chohan is the first PTI leader who has confirmed this secret meeting which took place at the residence of former MNA Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood.
Chohan, nevertheless, advised Tareen, an estranged PTI leader and once PM Imran Khan’s confidante, not to trust the Sharif family.
“Jahangir Tareen can never get good from the Sharif family,” he said.
The PTI leader went on to say that Shehbaz is a person who doesn’t have decisive power. Similarly, Chaudhry Nisar is also unable to decide, he added.
Chohan suggested Tareen decide while keeping the recent situation and incidents in mind because “there wouldn’t be any no-trust motion” against the incumbent government.
“These people don’t know where the no-trust motion would be brought.”
Moreover, Chohan also claimed that 15 PML-N MPAs in Punjab Assembly are asking for PTI’s tickets.
Shahbaz Sharif, Jahangir Tareen meet ‘secretly’
Shahbaz and Tareen had met secretly to discuss the ousting of PM Imran Khan, sources had said earlier.
The credible source had told The News that the two leaders met a few days ago to discuss the fate of the incumbent government.
Tareen, when contacted, did not offer any comment on this critically important meeting in the wake of the Opposition’s announcement to move a no-confidence motion against PM Imran Khan.
‘Such contacts are part of politics’
Without confirming or denying his meeting with Shahbaz Sharif, Tareen had said that his group of estranged ruling party MNAs and MPAs had given him the mandate to make any political decision.
Tareen had said that being a politician, he believes in interaction with other politicians. “Such contacts are part of politics,” he had added.
Tareen had said that everybody was upset over the economic condition of the country and because of the growing price hike. He had said that his group’s MPs were of the view that they could not stay indifferent to the woes of the masses. In response to a question, Tareen had said that his group’s MPs are more than 30 in number.
