Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi Saturday dismissed Jahangir Tareen’s Istihkam-e-Pakistan Party as “dead on arrival” after it was launched a few days back.
The PTI leader expressed his views on the recently established political faction, which primarily consists of former PTI members while speaking to journalists outside an anti-terrorism court in Lahore.
In response to a question about the Tareen-led party, Qureshi drew a parallel, likening it to a patient pronounced “dead on arrival” in the emergency ward of a hospital.
“I would only say this much about it: when you take a patient, after an incident, to a hospital’s emergency. For instance, the Services Hospital is close by. You take them to its emergency. “The doctors conduct their examination, after which they declare them dead. So I will only say this is a launch which is dead on arrival,” he said.
Qureshi appeared before the ATC to request bail in the case related to road obstruction and delivering incendiary remarks.
