Former Senator and Attorney General of Pakistan Sardar Muhammad Latif Khosa will take oath as Governor Punjab on Thursday (today) at 7:00 pm Chief Justice Lahore High Court Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry will administer the oath at the Governor House.
Leading stalwarts from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and office bearers of Peoples Lawyers Forum besides notables from the town are expected to attend the oath-taking ceremony.
He was appointed as a Governor of Punjab by the President of Pakistan after the murder of late-Governor Salman Taseer on 11th January 2011. Khosa has represented several thousand clients in a span of nearly four decades as a senior advocate. His clients include former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, former Federal Minister and husband of Benazir Bhutto Asif Zardari, former Chief Minister of the province of Punjab Manzoor Watto, former Federal Minister for Social Welfare Tehmina Dualtana, numerous senior former and current politicians, business leaders and several top federal and provincial bureaucrats.
He has spoken on a wide range of subjects at various international forums including Oxford University. He has been a member of official delegations to Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Japan, China etc.
Earlier, soon after the PPP came to power after the 2008 elections Khosa was appointed Attorney-General for Pakistan on August 19, but was removed from the office in October 2009 on charges of corruption. He has been recently removed from the office of Attorney General of Pakistan on October 10th 2009 due to allegations and on 10th February 2010 as Advisor of Information Technology of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
He has been very active in bar politics and his group won important Supreme Court Bar Association and Pakistan Bar Council elections last year. He was also instrumental in the lawyers' movement for the restoration of dozens of senior judges sacked by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in 2007. However, later he apparently distanced himself from the movement till the judges were reinstated by the PPP-led government in 2009 following a long march by rival PML-N. The choice of his appointment came after the PPP acquiesced to the PML-N's 10-point agenda to improve performance of the federal government. He co-authored an electoral fraud report with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shortly before her assassination in December 2007. Khosa was one of Bhutto's top aides.