All my business is clean, claims Jahangir Tareen

LAHORE: After a hiatus of seven months, PTI leader Jahangir Tareen was back in Pakistan, landing at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport on Friday, Geo News reported. Tareen, who arrived with his son Ali Tareen, returned on an Emirates flight from London via Dubai.

While speaking to media at the airport, Tareen dismissed speculation about his reasons for leaving Pakistan, saying he has been going abroad every year for a medical check-up for the last seven years.

The PTI leader, who has been criticised heavily by the opposition over his alleged involvement in the sugar scandal, said on his return, "It is the opposition’s job to hurl allegations and I do not feel that there is a need to reply to them.

“Thanks to the Almighty, all my business is clean,” he asserted. Hours after his arrival, Tareen clarified in a tweet that his company, JDW Sugar Mills, was not part of any petition against the Punjab government's decision to commence sugar crushing on November 10. "All my mills, including those in Sindh, will start crushing on the 10th," he asserted. "[I] will play my part in helping the government overcome [the] sugar shortage and price hike."