Both countries could have conducted the whole affair discreetly and diplomatically, especially India. India acted very childish in the whole episode.
A huge setback to Indo US relations.
Peshawar: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban to champion girls' rights to education, paid tribute today to a teenager killed stopping a suicide bomber from attacking a school.
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I think in the whole episode both governments were extremely childish. It was wrong of US to arrest a serving diplomat and treating her as a criminal, and it was wrong of India to react in a manner it reacted. In any case the end result would have been same.
However, the fallout is...
Why the fcuk is India government giving such importance to a trival case over Indo-US relations? I guess the civil service lobby is working round that clock on this. (Her father too was an IAS officer)
New Delhi/New York: Diplomat Devyani Khobragade flew back to India on Friday after a deal between the US and India in which she was indicted but granted diplomatic immunity from visa fraud charges. India has now expelled an American diplomat of similar rank from Delhi, in a sign of lingering...
Ahmad Nejad is wanted in 1979 criminal case, but was allowed to visit US many times during his tenure as a president of Iran. I don't thing US can deny her a visa until the time she is a diplomat, but as a person non grata she is not welcome in US any more.
He sure put India-US on a major...
US never said they would not give her visa. They said they would not prosecute her until the time she enjoys diplomatic immunity, meaning a long long time.