Jahangir Tareen
Jahangir Khan Tareen (Urdu: جہانگیر خان ترین) (born 4 July 1953) is a Pakistani businessman and former politician who is the majority shareholder and CEO of JDW Group,[6] a conglomerate specializing in the manufacturing and sale of sugar and associated products, ethanol(bio-fuels) production, power generation, transmission and sales, sugar cane farms, and aircraft operations and maintenance services.[7] Jahangir Tareen is also the chairman and owner of JK Group,[6] a conglomerate specializing in manufacturing and sale of sugar and associated products, milk production, processing and sales, power generation, transmission and sales, production and sales of fruits and agricultural produce, granite mining and sales, PepsiCo Multan franchise and PSL Multan Sultans' franchise.[7] Khan has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan thrice between 2002 and 2017. Born in Comilla, Tareen was educated at the Forman Christian College in Lahore, and later attended the University of North Carolina. Prior to entering politics, he had been a lecturer and banker.
Jahangir Tareen | |
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جہانگیر ترین | |
| Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
| In office 1 January 2016 – 15 December 2017 | |
| Constituency | NA-154 Lodhran-I |
| In office 16 November 2002 – January 2012 | |
| Constituency | NA-195 Rahim Yar Khan-IV |
| Federal Minister for Industries and Production | |
| In office August 2004 – November 2007 | |
| President | Pervez Musharraf |
| Prime Minister | Shaukat Aziz |
| Advisor to the Chief Minister of Punjab on Agriculture | |
| In office 2002–2004 | |
| Chief Minister | Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi |
| Secretary General Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) | |
| In office 2013–2017 | |
| Chairman | Imran Khan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jahangir Khan Tareen 4 July 1953[1][2] Comilla, East Bengal, Pakistan (now in Bangladesh)[1] |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Political party | Istehkam-E-Pakistan Party (2023-2024) |
| Other political affiliations | |
| Spouse | Amina Tareen[3] |
| Children | 4 (including Ali Tareen) |
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| Alma mater | |
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| Website | www |
Tareen began his political career when he served as the special adviser on agriculture and social sector initiatives to the then Chief Minister of Punjab, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, before being appointed the Federal Minister for Industries and Production where he served from 2004 to 2007 in the Shaukat Aziz ministry. In 2011, he joined PTI and became its General Secretary where he served until December 2017. [8] On 8 June 2023, he launched his own political party, Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP).[9] On 12 February 2024, he resigned from IPP and decided to leave politics.[10]
Early life and education
Jahangir Tareen was born on 4 July 1953 in the city of Comilla, which back then was part of East Bengal in Pakistan, but is now located in Bangladesh. However, although the Tareen family was stationed over here at the time, they originally hailed from South Punjab, specifically near Multan and came from a Pashtun family that belongs to the Tareen tribe of Pashtuns.[11][1]
Tareen’s father, Allah Nawaz Tareen, was a police officer who retired as a Deputy Inspector General.[12] His mother, Zahida Khan Tareen, died in 2004. His younger brother, Alamgir Tareen, a businessman who operated one of the largest water purification plants in the country and who was also the founder and owner of the Multan Sultans franchise in the Pakistan Super League, committed suicide in 2023, at the age of 63.[13]
His paternal cousin, Shaukat Tarin, is a banker who has served as the country's Finance Minister twice, including under Imran Khan from 2021 - 2022.[14]
His maternal cousins include Humayun Akhtar Khan and Haroon Akhtar Khan, both influential politicians and the sons of General Akhtar Abdur Rahman, who served as the DG-ISI under Zia-ul-Haq.[15]
He graduated from Forman Christian College, Lahore in 1971[16] and received an MBA degree from the University of North Carolina, USA, in 1974.[1]
He is an entrepreneur by profession and prior to entering in politics, he had also been a lecturer, and a banker.[1] He headed the Punjab Task Force on Agriculture from 1997 to 1999 and the Punjab Task Force on Wheat Procurement and Marketing from 2001 to 2002.[1]
Tareen is considered one of the wealthiest politicians in Pakistan,[17] with assets worth around Rs 400 billion;[16] he owns thousands of acres of farmland and some of the largest sugar mills and many other business entities in Pakistan.[18]
Political career
In an interview with Newsweek Pakistan, Tareen said he “Doesn’t belong to a political family, but he married into one.” [19] He married Amina Tareen, the daughter of Syed Hasan Mahmood and the sister of Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood, both having been seasoned politicians, especially influential, in the Rahim Yar Khan District of Punjab, where the family has "considerable, spiritual and feudal influence."[15]
He began his political career in 2002[19][16] after he was elected to the National Assembly in the 2002 Pakistani general elections from Constituency NA-195 on the ticket of Pakistan Muslim League (Q).[1][20][17]
He served as special adviser on agriculture and social sector initiatives to then Chief Minister of Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.[17][19] In August 2004, he was inducted into the federal cabinet[1] and was made Federal Minister for Industries and Production[17][21] in the Shaukat Aziz ministry where he remained until 2007.[18][16] His sugar mills flourished during his tenure as Minister for Industries.[22]
In the 2008 Pakistani general election, Tareen was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly for the second time from Constituency NA-195 on the seat of Pakistan Muslim League (F).[20][23][16]
He was the parliamentary leader of PML-F in the National Assembly.[24] Later, he formed a forward block known as "Tareen's group" which comprised several seasoned politicians.[25] In 2011, he said he was to launch his own political party consisting of politicians free from corruption charges.[16] He later resigned from the National Assembly[23] and in November 2011, joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf along with a number of associates, saying that his vision was similar to PTI's.[16][24][26][27][28]
In September 2013, Imran Khan appointed Tareen as the Secretary General of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf[18][29]
In the 2013 Pakistani general election, Tareen ran for a seat on the National Assembly from Constituency NA-154 (Lodhran) on the seat of PTI, but was unsuccessful.[17][20][30] Where has heavily invested.[18][17]
In the 2015 by-elections, he was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly for the third time from Constituency NA-154 (Lodhran) on the seat of PTI.[30] The seat became vacant after Tareen filed a petition in which he made accusations of irregularities in the constituency during the 2013 general election.[31][32][33][34]
Controversies
In 2016, PML-N filed a reference to disqualify Tareen from his National Assembly seat for "submitting false statements with the Election Commission of Pakistan".[35] In 2017, ECP rejected disqualification references against Tareen.[36]
On 15 December 2017, the Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Tareen from serving as a member of parliament under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution due to dishonesty in financial declarations. It also noted that he had engaged in conduct that could have been prosecuted as insider trading, but he was protected from such prosecution due to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan.[37] A subsequent judgment held that disqualification under Article 62(1)(f) is for life, but Tareen claimed that this judgment did not apply in his case.[38]
However, on 8 January 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that the lifetime disqualification was beyond the cope of Article 62(1)(f) and therefore, Tareen became eligible to contest the 2024 elections.[39]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "New federal ministers". DAWN.COM. 2 September 2004. from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ . Pildat. 23 March 2011. Archived from the original on 23 March 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ "Tareen, wife 'discretionary lifetime beneficiaries' of 'camouflaged' £7 million UK home". Geo News. 6 November 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ^ "32 ministers take oath: Cabinet includes 11 new faces". DAWN.COM. 2 September 2004. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ Raza, Syed Irfan (1 April 2021). "Ex-PPP minister Shaukat Tarin to head economic advisory board". DAWN.COM.
- ^ a b "JDW Accounts 2018". JDW Group. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "JDW Sugar Mills Limited". Business Recorder. 24 January 2019.
- ^ "Top Tax Payers Last Year". thenews.com.pk. 9 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ "Jahangir Tareen's new party to be named 'Istehkam-e-Pakistan'". www.geo.tv. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ "IPP chief Jahangir Tareen quits politics". ARY NEWS. 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
- ^ Dawn.com (15 December 2017). "Jahangir Tareen — one of Pakistan's wealthiest lawmakers". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- ^ Husain, Fahd (30 September 2018). "A man called Tareen". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ Ansari, Raees (6 July 2023). "Jahangir Tareen's brother Alamgir Tareen 'commits suicide'". Geo News.
- ^ "Pakistan PM Imran Khan appoints Shaukat Tareen as new Finance Minister in cabinet reshuffle". The Hindu. 16 April 2021.
He is a cousin of Jehangir Tareen, dubbed as sugar baron due to several sugar mills [...]
- ^ a b "How Imran Khan Is Hurting His Own Politics". The Wire. 27 November 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Jehangir Tareen". DAWN.COM. 29 April 2013. from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f "Jahangir Tareen is one of Pakistan's wealthiest lawmakers". DAWN.COM. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Jahangir Tareen: PTI's money man". Herald Magazine. Dawn. 25 October 2016. from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ a b c . Newsweek Pakistan. 29 July 2011. Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
- ^ a b c "NA-154 (Lodhran-I): In a first, army given anti-terror powers for by-elections. The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 23 December 2015. from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
- ^ . The Nation. 6 November 2011. Archived from the original on 14 November 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
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- ^ a b "Resignation of six MNAs accepted". DAWN.COM. 5 January 2012. from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Tareen to launch 'party of the clean' in September". DAWN.COM. 12 July 2011. from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ . The Nation. 22 September 2013. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Influential figures likely to join PTI". DAWN.COM. 19 December 2011. from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "Hurtling ahead: 'Clean' Tareen, Leghari brothers join PTI - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 20 December 2011. from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "Legharis, Tarin, Kasuri to jump aboard PTI ship". Pakistan Today. 19 December 2011. from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "Imran's 'war on three fronts'". DAWN.COM. 11 May 2015. from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ a b "PTI's Tareen trounces PML-N's Baloch in NA-154 Lodhran by-poll: unofficial results". DAWN.COM. 24 December 2015. from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
- ^ "Voting ends as Baloch, Tareen face off in NA-154 by-poll". DAWN.COM. 23 December 2015. from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
- ^ "PTI's Jehangir Tareen wins NA-154 by-poll". The News. 24 December 2015. from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "Election tribunal orders re-election in NA-154, de-seats PML-N lawmaker". DAWN.COM. 26 August 2015. from the original on 12 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "PTI's Tareen trounces PML-N's Baloch in NA-154 Lodhran by-poll: unofficial results". DAWN.COM. 24 December 2015. from the original on 24 November 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "PML-N files disqualification reference against PTI's Jahangir Tareen". Dawn. 18 August 2016. from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
- ^ "ECP rejects disqualification references against Imran Khan, Jehangir Tareen". Dawn. 16 March 2017. from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
- ^ Bhatti, Haseeb (15 December 2017). "Imran Khan not out, Jahangir Tareen disqualified for being 'dishonest': Supreme Court". Dawn. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ "Disqualification under Article 62 (1)(f) is for life but not applicable in my case: Jahangir Tareen". Dawn. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ Iqbal, Nasir (9 January 2024). "SC verdict clears election path for Nawaz, Tareen". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
External links
- Jahangir Tareen on Twitter