LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen cut short his overseas trip and reached Lahore on Monday to drum up support for Dr Arif Alvi ahead of the presidential elections on September 4.
Tareen, who had left for London before Eid, told reporters at the airport that he had to return to Pakistan on the request of Alvi, asking him to play “active role” in his presidential campaign.
Arif Alvi, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) nominee for the post of president, had sought the help of his fellow party’s leader Jahangir Khan Tareen to be able to meet his allies and request for their votes in the upcoming presidential election.
“Need to visit all provincial capitals with our team as instructed by Imran Khan to meet our allies and voters and request for their votes,” Alvi had said, adding that he has asked Jahangir Khan Tareen who is vacationing in the UK.
“I think he has had a good vacation and now back to work,” he had added.
Earlier this month, Tareen made headlines on mainstream and social media over his efforts to win the support of independents and small parties that were instrumental in electing Imran Khan as the prime minister and dislodging the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government in Punjab.
