Khosa’s Appointment: AG’s help sought

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought assistance from the Punjab advocate general and a deputy attorney general to decide the maintainability of a petition seeking disqualification of Governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa. The court asked both law officers to appear in court on December 20. Petitioner Advocate Afaq Ahmad submitted a petition saying that the governor was violating his constitutional role by taking actively participating in political activities. The petitioner also said that the governor was allocating a large portion of government funds to southern Punjab because he’s from the area. He said that another political motive behind the allocation was PPP’s support for a separate South Punjab province. The petitioner prayed to the court to take notice of the governor’s “illegal acts” and declare him ineligible to hold the office.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 15^th, 2011.