PPP terminates Latif Khosa party membership

The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has terminated senior lawyer Latif Khosa party membership “for crossing the party line”.

PPP Punjab President Rana Farooq Saeed ordered termination of Khosa’s membership, saying he crossed red line of the party and action has been taken against him.

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Latif Khosa “reminded repeatedly that he should not cross the party line and the prescribed limits. But he did not follow the instructions,” the official said.

The attorney general of Pakistan (AGP), Khosa, allegedly wanted his son to appointed in addition to using his position as the party’s lawyer to benefit from other privileges.

When his request to appoint his son to the AGP was denied, he accused Khosa of extorting money from the party leadership.

Khosa, a former Punjab governor, had recently proposed to the PPP leadership that it should part ways with the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to strengthen its position in Punjab.

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Addressing a news conference at the Lahore High Court, Khosa said Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari should not be part of Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif’s cabinet, regretting the PPP chairman’s appointment in April last year as the foreign minister.