1. Jahangir Khan Tareen was born on 4 July 1953 and is a Pakistani industrialist and politician who is the founder of JDW Sugar Mills, known as JDW Group, a conglomerate specializing in the manufacturing and sale of sugar and associated products, ethanol production, power generation, transmission and sales, sugar cane farms, and aircraft operations and maintenance services.
Jahangir Tareen is the chairman and owner of JK Group, a conglomerate specializing in manufacturing and sale of sugar and associated products, milk production, processing and sales, power generation, transmission and sales, production and sales of fruits and agricultural produce, granite mining and sales, PepsiCo Multan franchise and PSL Multan Sultans' franchise.
Jahangir Tareen began his political career when he served as the special adviser on agriculture and social sector initiatives to the then Chief Minister of Punjab, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, before being appointed the Federal Minister for Industries and Production where he served from 2004 to 2007 in the Shaukat Aziz ministry.
Jahangir Tareen was born on 4 July 1953 in the city of Comilla, which back then was part of East Bengal in Pakistan, but is located in Bangladesh.
However, although the Jahangir Tareen family was stationed over here at the time, they originally hailed from South Punjab, specifically near Multan and came from a Pashtun family that belongs to the Jahangir Tareen tribe of Pashtuns.
Jahangir Tareen's father, Allah Nawaz Jahangir Tareen, was a police officer who retired as a Deputy Inspector General.
Jahangir Tareen graduated from Forman Christian College, Lahore in 1971 and received an MBA degree from the University of North Carolina, USA, in 1974.
Jahangir Tareen is an entrepreneur by profession and prior to entering in politics, he had been a lecturer, and a banker.
Jahangir Tareen 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.
Jahangir 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.
Jahangir Tareen 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 Pakistan Muslim League.
Jahangir Tareen served as special adviser on agriculture and social sector initiatives to then Chief Minister of Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.
Jahangir Tareen was the parliamentary leader of PML-F in the National Assembly.
Jahangir Tareen later resigned from the National Assembly and in November 2011, joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf along with a number of associates, saying that his vision was similar to PTI's.
The seat became vacant after Jahangir Tareen filed a petition in which he made accusations of irregularities in the constituency during the 2013 general election.
On 15 December 2017, the Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Jahangir Tareen from serving as a member of parliament under Article 62 of the Constitution due to dishonesty in financial declarations.
However, on 8 January 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that the lifetime disqualification was beyond the scope of Article 62 and therefore, Jahangir Tareen became eligible to contest the 2024 elections.