Khosa – Removed from Minister IT and Telecom, Resigns from PMs Advisor for IT and Telecom, Resignation Not Accepted…
By Arsalan Mir | July 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
Recently on our post about the ICTRDF directors being fired by Mr. Latif Khosa, Minister in-charge for IT and Telecom, Mr. Wahaj us Siraj (one of the fired director) commented that they shall move the matter to the court of law, which happened during the last week. The details of which are given on the ‘The News’ story here.
To cover up the matter and to prevent further damage to the image of the government the cabinet division issued a notification of taking back the charge of Ministry from Mr. Khosa:
The undersigned is directed to state that Cabinet Division’s office memorandum of even number date 27th March 2010, designating Sardar Muhammad Latif Khosa, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Information Technology, as Minister-in-Charge for the Ministry of Information and Technology, is hereby withdrawn with immediate effect.
Consequent upon the above decision the prime minister, himself will henceforth look after the Ministry of Information Technology as per first proviso to rule 3(4) of the Rules of Business, 1973.
Acting on which Mr. Khosa tendered his resignation to the President, which the President did not accept. An excerpt from Dawn gives the details as follows:
A dormant cold war between President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani heated up on Tuesday when the former rejected the latter’s decision to remove his adviser on Information Technology (IT), Sardar Latif Khosa. The president revoked the decision of the prime minister during a meeting with Mr Khosa at the Presidency, when the adviser presented his resignation.
Sources in the IT ministry said Prime Minister Gilani and senior bureaucrats in the ministry were not ‘happy’ with the way the adviser worked.
The IT secretary is reported to close to the prime minister and his working relations with Mr Khosa were not ‘cordial’; he always complained to the prime minister about the adviser’s handling of administrative and financial matters, the sources said.
On the other hand, Mr Khosa is reported to have told the president that he was not allowed to work ‘independently’ in the ministry.
[Source Dawn News]
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