Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) founder Jahangir Khan Tareen has vowed that his party would truly bring about ‘Naya Pakistan’—a slogan used by his former party leader Imran Khan against the rival parties.

“We will think about the people first then about ourselves,” he said while addressing a workers’ convention in Taxila where former PTI leader and federal minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan formally joined the party.

The IPP has been conducting rallies ahead of the general elections scheduled for February 8.

The IPP is a splinter faction of PTI loyalists who coalesced around Jahangir Tareen in the wake of the May 9 violence. In the recent past, three former PTI women leaders and Farrukh Habib joined the party with an announcement to continue “working for the people”.

The JKT-led party was launched on June 8, 2023. Almost all their leaders were part of the PTI when it announced its manifesto, which included providing 10 million jobs in five years.

Tareen, the patron-in-chief of the IPP, said that politicians should speak carefully and not should not speak ill of anyone.

Meanwhile, IPP President Aleem Khan in his address took a dig at former prime minister Khan.

The person who used to curse others was not behind bars, he said, and alleged that the PTI chairman was not loyal to anyone.

Earlier this month, Aleem promised to cut the price of gasoline in half and set the minimum salary at Rs50,000.

“Free electricity will be provided on tubewells providing water to farmers having 12 and a half acres of land,” he said while addressing party supporters at the Jahanian Stadium in Khanewal on Saturday.