LAHORE, Aug 18: Governor Sardar Latif Khosa has said the PML-N’s Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa and others are 90 per cent willing to join the PPP.

“We are in contact with them (Khosas of DG Khan) and they are 90 per cent willing to join the PPP,” the governor said at an Iftar dinner he hosted for journalists here on Saturday.

To a question whether he had any objection to it, the governor said: “I have rather good relations with them and I want them to join my party.”

He said the Sharifs did not want Dost Khosa in the PML-N while the Khosas had issues with Shahbaz Sharif as they asked Nawaz Sharif to expel him from the party.

The differences between Khosas and Sharifs started last year over registration of a case against Dost Muhammad Khosa, former Punjab chief minister, for allegedly murdering his actress wife, Sapna.

Dost however, denies the charge. Following that their relations further deteriorated by changing of his (Dost) ministry besides the PML-N workers from D G Khan were denied jobs.

Dost Khosa resigned from the party membership while his father Zulfiqar Khosa had also tendered his resignation as senior adviser to the chief minister.

Dost Khosa had also launched a diatribe against Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in a press conference and demanded that Nawaz Sharif should intervene in the party affairs if he wanted to save it from breakup. Elder Sharif has not yet contacted the Khosa senior.

Lashing out at the PML-N for its stance on South Punjab commission, the governor said after Chaudhry Nisar’s statement that his party needed 50 per cent representation (in the commission) besides it should also do working on carving out other provinces, had fully exposed it (PML-N) before the people of the south that it was against this idea. “The PML-N will completely be wiped out of the south after its opposition to the commission’s constitution,” Mr Khosa said, adding the PML-N was living in fool’s paradise by saying that it would form government in Punjab after the next elections. “The PML-N has no chance to regain power in Punjab. Gone are the days when the people were befooled easily,” he said.

Mr Khosa also advised Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry not to create despondency among the people by saying “there is no writ of the government”. The government represented the people of the country and he (CJ) instead of speaking against the government should talk about rule of law. He said ‘some people’ at bar functions openly spoke against parliament. “They must remember that it is the right of the people to make parliament and no one can deprive them of this,” he said, adding the judges should speak through their verdicts.

He said parliament had right to legislate and make amendments to the Constitution. He said the court had no right to strike down the legislation made by the parliament.