Islamabad (National Times)- In its presidential reference to the Supreme Court, the ruling PTI shunned the act of switching parties and floor crossing by members of the parliament as “cancerous”.
It pleaded with the Court to eradicate the practice altogether by disqualifying “habitual turncoats” for life.
But the PTI has not always rallied against those who change party allegiances. In fact in 2018, 46 candidates, in the race for national assembly seats, who won on the PTI ticket, were previously with their rival political parties.
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Not only that, after coming to power in August 2018, Khan’s political party, which was gearing to form government in the centre, took in five members of the national assembly (MNAs) who had won the national polls independently.
These five men were: Syed Fakhar Imam, Abdul Ghaffar Wattoo, Muhammad Shabbir Ali, Basit Sultan Bukhari and Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa. Two of these — Imam and Ali — were later also made ministers in the PTI government.
It is important to mention here that these five MNAs, and several other members of the provincial assembly in Punjab, joined the PTI due to the efforts of businessman and politician Jahangir Khan Tareen.
Even at this moment, there are 51 sitting MNAs, who had defected from other political parties to join PTI in 2018, of which 10 are sitting federal ministers.
Here are their names:
Name
Party right now
Parties in the past
Sher Akbar Khan
PTI
JI, PPP-S
Prince Muhammad Nawaz Allai
PTI
PML-Q
Omer Ayub Khan
PML-Q, PML-N
Usman Khan Tarakai
PTI
IJIP
Pervez Khattak
PTI
PPP, PPP-S
Noor Alam Khan
PTI
PPP
Noor ul Haq Qadri
PTI
INDP
Jawwad Hussain Turi
PTI
INDP
Maj r Tahir Sadiq
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N
Ghulam Sarwar Khan
PTI
PPP, PML-Q
Sardar Zulfiqar Dullah
PML-N
Ch Farrukh Altaf
PTI
PML-Q
Ch Fawad
PTI
PML-Q, APML, PPP
Ch Shaukat Bhatti
PTI
PML-Q
Ch Amir Sultan Cheema
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N
Malik Umar Aslam Awan
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N
Sana ullah Masti Khel
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N
Afzal Khan Dhandhla
PTI
PML-Q
Ghulam Muhammad Lali
PTI
PML-Q
Ch Asim Nazir
PTI
PML-N, PML-Q
Nawab Sher Waseer
PTI
PPP
Raza Nasrullah Ghumman
PTI
PML-N
Faiz ullah Kamoka
PTI
Raja Riaz
PTI
PPP
Riaz Fatyana
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N
Sahibzada Mehboob Sultan
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N
Ghulam BiBi Bharwana
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N
Shafqat Mehmood
PTI
PPP
Malik Karamat Khokhar
PTI
PPP
Sardar Talib Nakai
PTI
PML-Q, PML-J
Syed Fakhar Imam
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N, PPP
Malik Ahmad Hussain Dehar
PTI
PPP
Malik Amir Dogar
PTI
PPP
Shah Mehmood Qureshi
PTI
PML-N, PPP
Rana Qasim Noon
PTI
PML-Q
Mian Shafiq
PTI
PPP
Tahir Iqbal
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N
Aurangzeb Khichi
PTI
PML-Q
Farooq Azam Malik
PTI
National Alliance, PPP
Makhdoom Khusro Bukhtiar
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N
Chaudhary Javed Iqbal Warraich
PTI
PPP
Sayed Basit Ahmad Sultan
PTI
PML-Q, PML-N
Amir Talal Gopang
PTI
PML-N
Niaz Ahmed Jakhar
PTI
PPP, PML-Q
Khawja Sheraz Mehmood
PTI
PML-Q, PPP
Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa
PTI
PML-Q
Sardar Jaffar Khan Leghari
PTI
National Alliance, PML-Q, PML-N
Sardar Nasrullah Khan Dreshak
PTI
PML-Q
Muhammad Mian Soomro
PTI
PML-Q
Amir Liaqat Hussain
PTI
MQM
Abdul Shakoor Shad
PTI
PPP
