14 ex-ministers, including Tareen, to join Imran Khan

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14 ex-ministers, including Tareen, to join Imran Khan

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In first major shift on ground, 14 ex-ministers have announced intention to join Imran Khans PTI.

06 November,2011 12:51 pm

The 14 ministers include Jehangir Khan Tareen, former minister for industries, production and special initiative.Tareen is in London these days. He told Dunya News over the phone that he had informed Imran Khan about the names of his group intending to join his party. Among the others who are joining the PTI include Awais Leghari, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Ishaq Khakwani, Jamal Leghari and Sardar Tufail.Most of the 14 former ministers seeking to join the PTI had been members of the PML-Q.They would formally announce their joining after Eid.However, while their announcement would be a welcome step so far as polling is concerned because most of the aspirants are political heavyweights, yet it would be a test for Imran how he would adjust old faces with his slogan of change. He has earlier announced his partys parliamentary committee would decide who to give the party ticket to when the time comes. Reports indicate that former foreign minister and PPP’s leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi is undecided on joining the PTI or not. It is said that Qureshi would more likely announce the decision as an individual, and not a group.PTI chief Imran Khan, who has taken aback political stalwarts with his impressive rally in Lahore, had disclosed yesterday that 60 per cent of parliamentarians wanted to join his party.