Hardly two days after reports confirmed that Prime Minister Gilani had asked Mr. Khosa to resign and had taken over charge of the Ministry of IT himself, President Zardari has refused to accept Khosa’s resignation bringing the cold war between the Prime Minister and the President to the fore once again.

I had earlier reported in this post how Mr. Khosa had targeted technocrats and fired all 6 of the ICTRDF directors.

Here’s an excerpt from the Daily Dawn that appeared today:

ISLAMABAD: 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.

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-latif-khosa-resigns-qs-06