DERA GHAZI KHAN, May 31: Chief Minister Dost Muhammad Khan Khosa paid a short visit to his hometown and returned back to Lahore minutes after having a meeting with his close associates at the VVIP Lounge of the airport here on Saturday.

The chief minister did not leave the lounge for city and had a meeting which was attended by PML-N Punjab president Zulfiqar Ali khan Khosa, Tribal Area tehsil nazim Usman Buzdar and newly-elected district naib nazim Asim

Zubair Khosa. Officials of the district administration were not allowed to attend the meeting.

Sources told Dawn that the participants of the meeting evolved a strategy to get rid of district nazim through a no-confidence vote and to win the PP-243 bye-elections.

Zulfiqar Khosa is contesting against the son of district

nazim at PP-243 vacated by Saifuddin Khosa.