Jahangir Tareen officially launches ‘Istihkam-e-Pakistan Party’

Jahangir Tareen officially launches the ‘Istihkam-e-Pakistan Party’ on Thursday.

Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen made the announcement during a press conference in Lahore on Thursday evening.

Flanked by former PTI leaders including Aleem Khan, Imran Ismail, and others, Tareen said “We are laying a foundation of a new political party — Istihkam-e-Pakistan Party.”

“We have gathered at one platform to make joint efforts to lift the country out of this quagmire,” he said, adding that the country needed a political leadership that could resolve all prevailing issues including social, economic, and others.

Elaborating on the need to form a new party, he said “During my long journey in politics, I got the opportunity to meet and work with several people. I learned a lot from this experience,” he said, adding that he had never been a traditional politician.

Tareen said he had joined the PTI as he was certain that through the party’s platform, “We will be able to implement all those reforms that Pakistan needed and still need”.

“And for this reason, we worked day and night to make the PTI a full-fledged political force. People you see sitting here today, all of them were a part of this struggle,” he added.

“We infused the party with newfound passion and enthusiasm after the 2013 elections.”

Tareen elaborated that in the coming days, several facts would surface which would show “to what extent we went to make the party stable”.

“We ensure that PTI turns into such a political force that it does not just win whenever elections are held but it also is in a position to initiate reforms in the country,” he said.

Tareen said reforms were the PTI’s basic manifesto, “due to which we all had come together”.

But, he added, “Unfortunately… matter did go the way we expected and people were disheartened”.

He added the PTI’s manifesto was to improve the economy and relations with other countries and most importantly, ensure accountability.