No-trust motion: 10 ministers, 41 MNAs in PTI right now are party switchers

At this moment, there are 51 sitting MNAs, who had defected from other political parties to join PTI in 2018, of which 10 are sitting federal ministers

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National Assembly of Pakistan. — APP/File
National Assembly of Pakistan. — APP/File

In its presidential reference to the Supreme Court, the ruling PTI shunned the act of switching parties and floor crossing by members of the parliament as “cancerous”.

It pleaded with the Court to eradicate the practice altogether by disqualifying “habitual turncoats” for life.

But the PTI has not always rallied against those who change party allegiances. In fact in 2018, 46 candidates, in the race for national assembly seats, who won on the PTI ticket, were previously with their rival political parties.

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Not only that, after coming to power in August 2018, Khan’s political party, which was gearing to form government in the centre, took in five members of the national assembly (MNAs) who had won the national polls independently.

These five men were: Syed Fakhar Imam, Abdul Ghaffar Wattoo, Muhammad Shabbir Ali, Basit Sultan Bukhari and Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa. Two of these — Imam and Ali — were later also made ministers in the PTI government.

It is important to mention here that these five MNAs, and several other members of the provincial assembly in Punjab, joined the PTI due to the efforts of businessman and politician Jahangir Khan Tareen.

Even at this moment, there are 51 sitting MNAs, who had defected from other political parties to join PTI in 2018, of which 10 are sitting federal ministers.

Here are their names: 

Name

Party right now

Parties in the past

Sher Akbar Khan

PTI

JI, PPP-S

Prince Muhammad Nawaz Allai

PTI

PML-Q

Omer Ayub Khan

 

PML-Q, PML-N

Usman Khan Tarakai

PTI

IJIP

Pervez Khattak

PTI

PPP, PPP-S

Noor Alam Khan

PTI

PPP

Noor ul Haq Qadri

PTI

INDP

Jawwad Hussain Turi

PTI

INDP

Maj r Tahir Sadiq

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N

Ghulam Sarwar Khan

PTI

PPP, PML-Q

Sardar Zulfiqar Dullah

 

PML-N

Ch Farrukh Altaf

PTI

PML-Q

Ch Fawad

PTI

PML-Q, APML, PPP

Ch Shaukat Bhatti

PTI

PML-Q

Ch Amir Sultan Cheema

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N

Malik Umar Aslam Awan

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N

Sana ullah Masti Khel

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N

Afzal Khan Dhandhla

PTI

PML-Q

Ghulam Muhammad Lali

PTI

PML-Q

Ch Asim Nazir

PTI

PML-N, PML-Q

Nawab Sher Waseer

PTI

PPP

Raza Nasrullah Ghumman

PTI

PML-N

Faiz ullah Kamoka

PTI

Raja Riaz

PTI

PPP

Riaz Fatyana

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N

Sahibzada Mehboob Sultan

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N

Ghulam BiBi Bharwana

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N

Shafqat Mehmood

PTI

PPP

Malik Karamat Khokhar

PTI

PPP

Sardar Talib Nakai

PTI

PML-Q, PML-J

Syed Fakhar Imam

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N, PPP

Malik Ahmad Hussain Dehar

PTI

PPP

Malik Amir Dogar

PTI

PPP

Shah Mehmood Qureshi

PTI

PML-N, PPP

Rana Qasim Noon

PTI

PML-Q

Mian Shafiq

PTI

PPP

Tahir Iqbal

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N

Aurangzeb Khichi

PTI

PML-Q

Farooq Azam Malik

PTI

National Alliance, PPP

Makhdoom Khusro Bukhtiar

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N

Chaudhary Javed Iqbal Warraich

PTI

PPP

Sayed Basit Ahmad Sultan

PTI

PML-Q, PML-N

Amir Talal Gopang

PTI

PML-N

Niaz Ahmed Jakhar

PTI

PPP, PML-Q

Khawja Sheraz Mehmood

PTI

PML-Q, PPP

Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa

PTI

PML-Q

Sardar Jaffar Khan Leghari

PTI

National Alliance, PML-Q, PML-N

Sardar Nasrullah Khan Dreshak

PTI

PML-Q

Muhammad Mian Soomro

PTI

PML-Q

Amir Liaqat Hussain

PTI

MQM

Abdul Shakoor Shad

PTI

PPP