As many as 14 ex-ministers have expressed their intention to join Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, former minister for industries, production and special initiative Jehangir Khan Tareen said. Tareen, who is in London these days, told a private television channel over the phone that he had informed Imran Khan about the names of his group intending to join his party.
Among those who intend to join PTI are Awais Leghari, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Ishaq Khakwani, Jamal Leghari and Sardar Tufail. Most of the 14 former ministers seeking to join PTI had been members of the PML-Q. They would formally announce their joining after Eid.
Reports indicate that former foreign minister and PPP leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi is still indecisive whether to join PTI or not. PTI chief Imran Khan, who has taken aback political stalwarts with his impressive rally in Lahore, had disclosed yesterday that 60 percent of the incumbent parliamentarians wanted to join his party.