{"id":16846,"date":"2022-03-01T06:57:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=16846"},"modified":"2022-03-01T06:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:57:34","slug":"pm-imran-inquires-after-estranged-pti-leader-jahangir-tareen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2022\/03\/01\/pm-imran-inquires-after-estranged-pti-leader-jahangir-tareen\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Imran \u2018inquires after estranged PTI leader Jahangir Tareen\u2019  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mainstorycontent-parent\">\n<div class=\"storypage-main-section2\">\n<div class=\"storypage-rightside\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke to estranged PTI leader Jahangir Tareen over the phone after a long hiatus and inquired after his health, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi confirmed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a local TV channel, Qureshi downplayed the premier\u2019s contact with the ailing disgruntled leader, saying PM Imran called his former close aide as a \u201cgoodwill gesture\u201d after he fell ill.<\/p>\n<p>According to the media reports, the premier telephoned Tareen before his departure to London, reportedly for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes days after two federal ministers urged the prime minister to contact Tareen in an effort to torpedo the chances of success of the opposition\u2019s no-confidence move, sources had told\u00a0<em>The Express Tribune<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is learnt that the two federal ministers met the prime minister, suggesting him to contact Tareen but got a stony silence from him, the sources added.<\/p>\n<p>PML-N Punjab President Rana Sanaullah on Saturday dismissed rumours that estranged PTI leader Tareen was travelling to London to hold a meeting with party supremo Nawaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2343928\/jahangir-tareen-group-may-join-hands-with-opp-sources\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jahangir Tareen group may join hands with opp: sources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per my information, Tareen went for her medical treatment and no meeting is scheduled with Mian Nawaz Sharif,&#8221; Sanaullah added.<\/p>\n<p>The Jahangir Tareen group is considering supporting the opposition in the no-trust move against the PTI-led government, sources had said after the group held a meeting at the residence of Awn Chaudhry under the chairmanship of Tareen.<\/p>\n<p>The group gave authority to Tareen to take a final decision.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the majority of the group\u2019s members decided to enter the political arena with full force and launch the anti-government strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Most members of the group suggested standing with the PML-N in the anti-government stance while those hailing from Jhang advised maintaining independent status.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke to estranged PTI leader Jahangir Tareen over the phone after a long hiatus and inquired after his health, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi confirmed on Monday. Speaking to a local TV channel, Qureshi downplayed the premier\u2019s contact with the ailing disgruntled leader, saying PM Imran called his former close aide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-pakistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16848,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16846\/revisions\/16848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}