Single minded

IN Media Watch Briefs | 03/08/2008

Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher held press conferences during the SAARC summit in Colombo and tried to talk about larger issues. But all journalists at both places wanted to know about was the ISI¿s role in the Indian embassy bombing at Kabul, and the US intelligence findings on this. Menon gave a short snappy answer and Boucher a long, discursive one. Neither said anything that made for great copy.

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