Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa talking to media

ISLAMABAD: The British High Commission, while refusing to accept the social and economic status of the former Punjab governor and senior adviser to the punjab chief minister Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, has declined to issue a visa to him.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif also phoned the British high commissioner and his secretary wrote a letter to the UK HC in this regard. Zulfiqar Khosa also sent a letter to the British high commissioner and expressed his surprise over the UK official’s refusal to issue him a visa.

He said: “I was shocked to know the reasons of the refusal of visa to me.” He appealed to the British high commissioner to issue him a visa. In his appeal, he introduced his family and said he was the 21st head of a Baloch tribe, which has a history of over 7,000 years.

He said he and his son owned vast agriculture and commercial properties in Dera Ghazi Khan and Fort Munro. “I have remained member of assemblies for nine times and also the governor of the Punjab,” he said. “My one son was a former chief minister of the Punjab and now he is a provincial minister, while another son, Saifuddin Khosa, is a member of the National Assembly. I am working as a senior adviser to the Punjab chief minister”.

He informed the British high commissioner that he had also provided a notification about his appointment as senior adviser, bank statement, monthly income and information about his host in the UK. However, he said, “I fail to understand what evidence I should submit for proving my social and economic status in Pakistan.”