Before flight, pasta is cold

February 18, 2013 11:28

If Arun Kumar Bal, the officer designated by defence minister A.K. Antony to co-ordinate New Delhi's follow-up to bribery allegations in the VVIP helicopter deal, loses his way in Rome this week, he is unlikely to get much help from the Indian embassy there.

Worse, Bal and the inter-agency team accompanying him to ferret out information from the Italians on allegations that have created waves in the global armaments market cannot expect any wisdom from the most obvious fountainhead in their task: the Indian ambassador in Rome.

India has no ambassador in Rome. Read

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