LAHORE, Aug 25: The Punjab PML-N has formed reception committees at provincial, division and district level to make arrangements for according a befitting welcome to the Sharifs on their return home from almost seven years of exile.

Briefing mediapersons after a provincial executive body meeting here on Saturday, Punjab President Sardar Zulfikar Khosa said a six-member committee, headed by provincial secretary-general Raja Ashfaq Sarwar, had been formed to monitor and guide reception committees which would start working from tomorrow (Sunday).

He said committees would be responsible for motivating workers, making arrangements for their transportation to the Lahore airport, adding that no specific targets were set in this regard.

He said he was unaware of PPP leader Ghulam Mustafa Khar’s move to join the PML-N. If there was any such contact, he said, then it was with the central command and the same was authorized to take a decision on the subject.

About accepting turncoats back into the party folds, he said senior party leadership had unanimously decided against it. In inevitable cases, he said the relevant district body would recommend them to the provincial command which would refer them to the central leadership for approval and only then the deserters would be able to join the PML-N.

He told a questioner that if ruling PML President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain wanted reconciliation efforts to bear fruits then he must first declare that he would not demand any office and only then any talks could be held with him.

About the existence of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD), he said as the PPP had damaged the ARD by deviating from the Charter of Democracy now all decisions would be taken from the platform of the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM).