Jamshed Cheema and his wife Musarrat Cheema have decided to quit the embattled Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
The development was confirmed by their lawyer, stating that he held separate meetings with them in jail. “I am confident that they would quit the PTI as soon as they come out of jail,” he said.
Jamshed Cheema and his wife Musarrat have finally decided to quit PTI.
The husband-wife team has been detained for 12 days following the May 9 protests that erupted in response to the arrest of PTI chief Imran Khan in a corruption case involving the Al-Qadir Trust.
Previously, several PTI leaders, including Malik Aslam Amin and Hisham Inamullah, had left the party following the May 9 vandalism, in which angry PTI protesters attacked public and military installations in various cities.
A day earlier, Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain announced his resignation from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and reached out to his brother, Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, to unite the country through politics.
Jamshed Iqbal Cheema is a Pakistani politician who served in the Imran Khan cabinet as the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Food Security from 19 April 2021 till 10 April 2022.
On 19 April 2021, he was appointed as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Food Security by Imran Khan.
On 25 May 2022, he was arrested by the police in order to stop the party from holding a long march in Islamabad.
On 17 July 2022, he was arrested from Lahore for blaming him for his involvement in injuring a PML-N activist at a polling station in PP-158 as by-polls on 20 constituencies are underway in the Punjab province.
On the other hand, Musarrat Cheema is a social worker and has a special interest in health, women empowerment, and education sectors.
A businesswoman, who has been elected as a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab in the General Elections 2018 against one of the seats reserved for women and is functioning as Chairperson, of the Standing Committee on Home; Advisor, Information Department, Government of Punjab; and as Member Syndicate, University of Punjab, Lahore. She has traveled to China, Thailand, Dubai, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, and Azerbaijan.
