In a major political move late on Thursday night, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) high command decided to replace Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa with Pakistan Muslim League-Functional Punjab President Makhdoom Ahmad Mahmood. The decision was made in a meeting held in Karachi chaired by President
Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of the PPP.
The meeting was attended by PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, his son Ali Musa Gilani and Makhdoom Ahmad Mahmood.
Mahmood, who was elected to the Punjab Assembly from Rahim Yar Khan’s PP-292 constituency and is closely related to PML-F chief Pir Pagara, Yousaf Raza Gilani and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf senior leader Jehangir Khan Tareen, is expected to take oath as the new Punjab governor on Saturday (tomorrow).
Talking to a private TV channel, Mahmood said the decision would consolidate PPP’s position in South Punjab. However, a spokesman of the Punjab Governor’s House has refuted the reports, saying no such decision had been intimated to Governor Khosa and he will be meeting with President Zardari on Saturday.
Mahmood was previously district nazim of Rahim Yar Khan and is a distinguished businessman with interests in agriculture and dairy farming. He also owns two sugar mills in Jamal Din Wali and Sadiqabad. His two sons are also politically active; Makhdoom Mustafa is a member of the National Assembly while Murtaza Mahmood is a member of the Punjab Assembly.
PML-F Member of the Sindh Assembly Nusrat Sehr Abbasi told Pakistan Today that the PML-F Punjab chief had met the PPP leadership in his personal capacity and the party had nothing to do with this meeting. “The PML-F leadership will decide his fate in the party in the next couple of days,” said Abbasi, who was on Thursday nominated leader of the newly formed opposition alliance in the Sindh Assembly. Latif Khosa was appointed governor of the Punjab after the assassination of Salmaan Taseer.
One clown after another. I long for the glorious days when Salmaan Taseer was around to hammer and clobber the dimwitted Punjab Administration into some kind of form.
No he is not a clown but extremely dangerous character of establishment since many generations.Such kind of political icons are reason of feudal supremacy and backwardness of our southern Punjab belt.he is purposely being planted on this important post to get the desired results of Punjab in favor of PPP..
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