ISLAMABAD: Aun Chaudhry, a member of the PTI’s Jahangir Tareen Group, was appointed as adviser to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday.

Earlier, the Cabinet Division drafted the summary for the appointment of Aun Chaudhry as Adviser to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Youth Affairs. Aun, who was once a close associate of former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, threw his weight behind ‘estranged’ PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen after relations between the latter and Imran soured a few months ago.

Tareen formed a group of dissidents within the PTI of which Aun is a member, and whose support became extremely significant both for the PTI and the opposition parties ahead of voting on the no-trust motion that eventually took place on the night between April 9 and April 10, 2022.