January , 2007
Diplomacy in the Full Glare of the Arc-lights
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It was something the Foreign Minister of Pakistan Khurshid Kasuri said that struck me as a sign of our times. "The India Pakistan peace process in the past few months has been driven by back channel or track-2 talks," he said, "Away from the full glare of the media." I was in Islamabad, speaking to him ahead of a visit by our Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, and it struck me as a sad statement indeed. In the press, we get blamed for a hell of a lot- but are we to blame for impeding the progress of bilateral ties between the two countries? The easy answer would be, no. India and Pakistan have had enough problems, enough wars and enough differences to have rotten relations completely on their own. But it is true that it is very difficult for them to conduct official ties without more than....
More about Suhasini Haidar
Suhasini Haidar is the Deputy Foreign Editor and Prime-Time anchor for CNN-IBN, regularly anchoring its award-winning show India@9. She entered the world of journalism in 1994 with an internship at the CNN’s United Nations Bureau in New York. She worked with the CNN in New Delhi after that, as a producer and then as a correspondent until she moved to CNN-IBN in 2005. Suhasini regularly covers the sub-continent, frequently reporting from Pakistan. She has also traveled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cover his official visits to the US, France, Russia, NAM, SAARC and CHOGM and is the only journalist to have interviewed Singh, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, and their daughters. Suhasini's also been in the field covering elections in Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir for CNN-IBN. She received her Bachelor's degree at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College and her Master's at Boston University's College of Communication. When not at work Suhasini turns off the TV and loves to read, swim and walk. When she is lucky, her two daughters, dogs and husband join in.
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