LAHORE – Former secretary general of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)Jehangir Khan Tareen lands in yet another trouble.
A petition has been filed against him for chairing meetings in the primeminister’s secretariat while ignoring the country’s top court ordersfollowing his disqualification.
In his petition, Ch Shoaib Saleem contended that Tareen was disqualifiedfor life by the Supreme Court but he not only attended important sessionsat the Prime Minister House but also issued directives to the relevantauthorities. He has asked the Lahore High Court to bar Tareen from chairingthe government sessions in the light of SC orders.
The disqualified former parliamentarian recently chaired a meeting of topgovernment officials at the secretariat of the prime minister, revealed theofficial minutes of the meeting.
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On Sept 13, Tareen convened a meeting of the Livestock Emergency WorkingGroup that had been assigned to develop a concrete plan to deliver on theprime minister’s commitment to revamping the livestock sector under the‘Uplift Agriculture and Conserve Water’ theme of the new government’s100-day agenda. The next meeting of the working group has been calledaround mid-October.
