Talking to reporters, Khosa said: “The Sharif brothers do not want to share or devolve power.”
He said that some people were accusing Khosas of trying to subvert the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). “The people being branded as Khosa group kept the party together during the Musharraf-era. Had I wanted to assume the leadership of the PML-N, I could easily have done so when the Sharif brothers were in exile in Saudi Arabia,” he said.
Khosa said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had signed an exit deal with the Musharraf government. “Without consulting any party member, he left the country after the army took over. For the sake of Sharif brothers, we used to deny that such a deal had been made,” he said. He said that the PML-N had no organisation at provincial level. “A PML-N worker has no access to the party leadership. Even ministers and members of Provincial and National Assemblies face immense difficulties in meeting the Sharif brothers,” he said.
“I have no personal enmity with Nawaz Sharif. The PML-N is no longer a democratic party. It is being run by a family,” he said.
“The party workers who remained during the dictatorship are now being sidelined and pushed against the wall,” he said. Khosa said that he could no longer defend the PML-N leaders.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 3rd, 2014.
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