Sardar Latif Khosa, a senior leader and lawyer in the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), had his party membership banned on Friday as a result of his refusal to respond to the show-cause notice sent to him for breaking party rules.
The Central Executive Committee (CEC) membership of Secretary General Nayyar Bokhari has also been suspended, according to the party spokesperson.
Latif Khosa, a senior leader, has had his PPP membership suspended
Latif Khosa received a warning from PPP on September 14 asking why no action should be taken against him for defending the leader of another political party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), without permission.
The notice read, “You are defending/ pleading/ representing a head of another political party in corruption cases in which he has been convicted and in a case against him under official secret Act without prior approval of leadership. Additionally, while delivering a speech at a lawyers function, you criticized the state policy regarding cipher.”
The notification also stated that the PPP leader had criticized the state’s encryption policy during the event, and that Khosa would lose his party membership if he continued to do so.
The letter said that Khosa, who is also a member of the previous premier’s legal team, supported the leader of another party but left out the name of PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
He has seven days to reply to the notification, according to the notice. Khosa was ultimately suspended because he failed to respond to the show-cause notice.
Senior attorney Khosa and senior PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan have clashed with their party’s leaders over their public defense of the PTI leader’s positions on a number of political issues.
The PTI leader is being held in judicial detention till September 26 in connection with the disappearance of cipher, a secret government document that the former prime minister waved during a political rally before to his impeachment last year.
Since being found guilty in the Toshakhana case on August 5 for failing to properly disclose gifts he received while in government, Khan has been incarcerated.
