PTI leaders declare support for Tareen’s review plea in core committee session

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders declared support for Jahangir Tareen’s review petition in the core committee session on Friday, a day after the Supreme Court disqualified him for life in the reference against him and party chief Imran Khan.

The party held the session under party chairperson, where Secretary General Tareen tendered his resignation from post, according to a PTI press release.

PTI leaders decided to keep the party secretary post vacated until the Supreme Court takes a final decision on the review petition.

The PTI leadership said it respected that Tareen tendered his resignation on moral grounds.

The party in the session criticised the National Accountability Bureau’s role in the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case, which the apex court dismissed.

In the session, a core committee was constituted under Shah Mehmood Qureshi to devise future strategy. The committee will present its report next week to Imran on future strategy regarding the Hudaibiya Mills case.

The PTI press release said that the party leadership declared that there is no comparision between Tareen’s case and that of ‘corrupt, godfather, Sicilian mafia’.

PTI Chairperson Imran Khan posted on Twitter, praising Tareen and his role in the party.

The Supreme Court on Friday disqualified Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Jahangir Tareen but ruled in favour of PTI Chairperson Imran Khan in its judgment on the disqualification case against the two party leaders.

The chief justice ruled that Imran is not disqualified as a parliamentarian as the petitioner was not directly affected in the foreign funding case.

The judgment states that Imran wasn't bound to declare his offshore company, declared his London flat in an amnesty scheme and that his former wife Jemima gave Imran the funds for buying the Bani Gala estate.

However, the apex court disqualified Tareen under Article 62(1)(f) because of his blatant misstatement regarding the ownership of the Hyde House property and failure to declare it in his nomination papers.