Islamabad
\nSenate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani on Sunday accepted former finance minister Shaukat Tarin\u2019s resignation from the upper house of the Parliament.
\nOn Friday, Tarin had announced he had decided to quit the PTI and politics for good, citing financial and health reasons. He had told media that the last two-and-a-half years had been \u201cvery challenging\u201d for him, both financially and due to his \u201cdeteriorating health\u201d after \u201cdouble Covid episodes\u201d.
\n\u201cTherefore, at the insistence of my family and friends, I have decided to resign from active politics for good and move on,\u201d Tarin had said, adding that he was resigning from PTI and also from the Senate.
\nAccording to a statement issued by the Senate Secretariat today, Tarin met Sanjrani in Dubai and tendered his resignation, which was accepted by the Senate chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani on Sunday accepted former finance minister Shaukat Tarin\u2019s resignation from the upper house of the Parliament. On Friday, Tarin had announced he had decided to quit the PTI and politics for good, citing financial and health reasons. He had told media that the last two-and-a-half years had been \u201cvery challenging\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n