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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44740)	10/2/2003 3:19:31 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Boucher gets one past his Indian tormenter WASHINGTON: State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, who is not without a sense of humour though he employs it sparingly, got one past one of his tormenters, an Indian-American correspondent who has a well-established reputation here for hostile questions about Pakistan. On Tuesday, after Boucher had spoken at some length about the visit of Richard Boucher to Pakistan, Afghanistan and some other countries and why he was going there, the correspondent caught the briefer’s eye and lodged the following convoluted query, “What were the plans? Have India told them in New York at the United Nations that we will talk to Pakistan only if and when they will stop terrorism or infiltrations into Kashmir? General Musharraf told me that they are really supporting Kashmiris, but they will stop only when India will talk to us. And now, finally, President Bush in his speech said there was an increase in cross-border terrorism. So how can we solve this? And what can the US do to solve this problem? Because now everybody knows that there is a terrorism increase, and they (Pakistan) are supporting and that’s what India is saying.” Boucher’s one-line answer, delivered with a straight face, was, “Slow down. It sounds like you’ve talked to everybody, so you’ve got the whole story. You don’t really need me.” —KH