Sardar Latif Khosa has been fired as president of the People’s Lawyer Forum (PLF) by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for making controversial remarks about the coalition government.
As PPP fired Latif Khosa as head of PPP’s legal wing, PPP Secretary General Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari has been given additional responsibilities for the position.
The PPP Chairman Secretariat also sent an announcement about the new appointment.
However, there have been no official statements from the PPP regarding Khosa’s removal, but it is believed that his recent interviews and criticism of the coalition government, particularly the PML-N on judicial matters, did not sit well with the PPP leadership.
Khosa has consistently and quietly criticized the coalition government’s policies and actions in the guise of reporting the truth. He has been extremely outspoken about them.
Muhammad Latif Khosa is a politician representing the Pakistan People’s Party who has been the Governor of Punjab from 2011 until 2013. He is a lawyer by profession, having been a senior advocate in the Supreme Court of Pakistan and is considered an authoritative legal and constitutional expert of the country.
A former senator and a former Attorney General of Pakistan, Latif Khosa was appointed as the Governor of Punjab by the President of Pakistan after the murder of the late-Governor Salman Taseer on 11 January 2011.
He was appointed the attorney general on 19 August 2008. Khosa also remained Member Pakistan Bar Council for three terms 1990-2005 and served as Chairman of the Executive Committee (CEC) of the Pakistan Bar Council. He co-authored an electoral fraud report with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto shortly before her assassination in December 2007. Khosa has been one of Late Benazir Bhutto’s top aides.
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