No Tareen faction within PTI: Fawad.

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday dismissed any notion of a split 'Tareen' faction within the PTI forming.

'No new group is forming; small differences do occur sometimes,' he said, as he addressed a press conference in Lahore, after meeting party members that have professed loyalty to Jahangir Khan Tareen over what they term as 'injustices' by the government.

Fawad Chaudhry said that the PTI and members of estranged PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen's group had decided to move forward as a 'family' and united political party, adding that any personal or collective problems would be resolved through dialogue.

Addressing a press conference in Lahore along with members of the JKT group, the minister said he and PTI leader Aamir Mehmood Kiani had been tasked by Prime Minister Imran Khan to visit the group and hear their point of view in detail.

'We all have decided to move forward as a family and a united party as is tradition. There is no issue of grouping in this or conflict between one another,'We have decided that we will sit and have talks to solve any personal or collective problems.

We are all united under [Prime Minister] Imran Khan's leadership,' Chaudhry said after the meeting with the group, adding that the delegation had also been tasked to solve the issues of the group in an 'organisational manner'.

Chaudhry said all of them were one 'family' and often there were coordination issues in a family. He acknowledged that there was a need to improve the party's political and administrative coordination.

According to the information minister, the members of the JKT group...

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