TOBA TEK SINGH, May 5: Punjab PML-N president Zulfiqar Khosa has said that he will resist turncoats’ return into the party. He was speaking at a PML workers convention at the residence of district president Amjad Ali Javed on Friday afternoon.

Mr Khosa said if the party leadership did not agree with him on this issue, he would resign from the party office. However, he would not quit the party as he was an old Muslim Leaguer than Mian Nawaz Sharif.

He said like other party leaders, he was also “offered” high offices by the rulers but rejected them.

He urged the workers to unite and never allow entry of any turncoat into the party in their respective areas.

He claimed that Mian Nawaz Sharif and Mian Shahbaz Sharif were soon returning to the country.

He criticised the foreign policy and said as a result of wrong policies Pakistan’s friends like Afghanistan and Iran have joined hands with India.

MNA Maimoona Hashmi said her father Javed Hashmi, Saad Rafiq and Zaeem Qadri were punished for standing against the government and refusing to betray Nawaz Sharif and the party.

She criticised the Us and the UK who claim to be the champions of democracy but both were supporting an army ruler in Pakistan.

Mr Javed said this was first time in last seven years that party held a party convention at here.

District secretary Advocate Rana Anwar criticised local party leaders, including former MNAs Asadur Rehman and M. Hamza, and said as a result of their wrong alliances with PML’s opponents, the party could not win district and tehsil nazim slots.

Others who addressed the convention included Punjab PML women wing president Begum Najma Hameed, general secretary Begum Zakia Shahnawaz, MSF central president Rana Arshad, former minister Asadur Rehman and former MNA Hamza.

Later at a reception hosted by district party chief, former PPP leader Ghiasuddin Janbaz and former MPA Sardar Masood Gadhi were also present and they exchanged views on political situation of the country with Mr Khosa.