What are our ambassadors and press attaches for?A big amount out of our national kitty is spent on them annually . I raise this question because the prime minister has decided to send about 20 parliamentarians abroad to different countries for propagation of Kashmir cause on which a heavy amount of taxpayers’ money is going to be spent.
Had there been a young energetic full- time foreign minister in this country and had our ambassadorial staff in foreign missions been doing its job well, the PM would not have, perhaps, felt the need to send members of Parliament abroad for the purpose. The tragedy is that neither the atrocities of the Indian forces in the occupied valley are being projected properly nor the negative propaganda against us for our alleged involvement in terrorism is being neutralised . To cap it all, the supreme sacrifices which are being offered by our armed forces in war on terrorism are also not being projected properly in the world media.
There have been reports to the effect that political expediency rather than merit is kept in view in the selection of our press attaches abroad. Small wonder they lack the necessary ability to cultivate with the media of the country they are posted in which is so necessary in today’s world where propaganda plays a key role in international affairs.
Though the PM is advised on foreign affairs by two octogenarians but let us admit they are in the age group where, more often than not people
take leave of their senses. It would have been better that while accepting the credentials of advisors on foreign affairs of the PM they should have kept in view the tradition set up by the all time great British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill. When he started pushing eighty he called on the British queen one fine morning to tender his resignation. When the Queen told him why does he want to resign when under the constitution he still had to go three years as PM, Churchill replied that he has reached the age when fresh ideas stop coming to human beings.
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