Jahangir Khan Tareen (

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Pakistani business magnate who is the majority shareholder &

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of JDW Group, a Conglomerate specialised in Sugar Manufacturing and has four sugar units,

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which has two power units,

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, Sugarcane Corporate Farming on 30,000 acres of land, and

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services. Jahangir Tareen is also the

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and owner of J.K Group, a Conglomerate specialised in Sugar Manufacturing, and has two sugar units, Milk Production & Processing, and Sugarcane Corporate Farming. He is also the

and owner of United Foods Pvt Ltd (Ali Tareen Farms, Lodhran) and Indus Mining. Khan has been a member of the

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thrice between 2002 and 2017. Born in

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, Tareen was educated at the Forman Christian College in

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, and later attended the

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. Prior to entering politics, he had been a lecturer and banker. Tareen began his political career in 2002. He served as special adviser on agriculture and social sector initiatives to then Chief Minister of Punjab

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before being appointed as the Federal Minister for Industries and Production where he served from 2004 to 2007 in the

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ministry. In 2011, he joined PTI and became its General Secretary where he served until December 2017. Tareen is one of the biggest tax payers in Pakistan.

Early life and education

Tareen was born on 4 July 1950 in

, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). He graduated from

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, Lahore in 1971 and received an MBA degree from the

, USA, in 1974. He is an entrepreneur by profession and prior to entering in politics, he had also been a lecturer, and a banker. 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. Tareen is considered one of the wealthiest politicians in Pakistan, with assets worth around Rs 400 billion; he owns thousands of acres of farmland and some of the largest sugar mills and many other business entities in Pakistan. He owns private planes which he often offers to

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key leadership for traveling.

Political career

In an interview with ''

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'', Tareen said "he doesn't belong to a political family, but he married into a political family". He began his political career in 2002 after he was elected to the National Assembly in the 2002 Pakistani general elections from Constituency NA-195 on the ticket of

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. He served as special adviser on agriculture and social sector initiatives to then Chief Minister of Punjab

. In August 2004, he was inducted into the federal cabinet and was made Federal Minister for Industries and Production in the Shaukat Aziz ministry where he remained until 2007. His sugar mills flourished during his tenure as Minister for Industries. In the

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, Tareen was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly for the second time from Constituency NA-195 on the seat of

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. He was the parliamentary leader of PML-F in the National Assembly. Later he formed a forward block known as "Tareen's group" which comprised several seasoned politicians. In 2011, he said he was to launch his own political party consisting of politicians free from corruption charges. He later resigned from the National Assembly and in November 2011, joined

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along with a number of associates, saying that his vision was similar to PTI's. In September 2013,

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appointed Tareen as the Secretary General of

In the

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, Tareen ran for a seat on the National Assembly from

Constituency NA-154 NA-155 Lodhran-II () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It mainly comprises the Lodhran Tehsil along with some areas of the Dunyapur Tehsil. Election 2002 General elections were held on 10 October 2002. Nawab Aman Ullah ...

(

Lodhran Lodhran ( ur, ), is a city and the capital of Lodhran District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is Pakistan's 81st largest city. It is located on the northern side of River Sutlej The Sutlej or Satluj River () is the longest of the ...

) on the seat of PTI, but was unsuccessful. Where has heavily invested. In the 2015 by-elections, he was re-elected as a member of the National Assembly for the third time from

(

) on the seat of PTI. The seat became vacant after Tareen filed a petition in which he made accusations of irregularities in the constituency during the 2013 general election.

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". In 2017, ECP rejected disqualification references against Tareen.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tareen, Jahangir 1953 births Living people Pashtun people Pakistani industrialists Pakistani MNAs 2002–2007 Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013 Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 Expelled members of the National Assembly of Pakistan Pakistan Muslim League (Q) MNAs Pakistan Muslim League (F) politicians Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNAs Forman Christian College alumni People from Lodhran District University of North Carolina alumni