Ajay Bisaria as envoy to Pakistan: Great choice

Disclaimer: Anyone who has reported on the PM's Office during the A B Vajpayee years will count Bisaria as a friend

The year was 2001. Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pervez Musharraf were meeting in Agra over two hot, muggy days in July at a summit that might have changed the world if it had worked. The atmosphere was fraught. There was an almost complete news blackout and then spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, Nirupama Rao, came close to being assaulted by Pakistani journalists for her refusal to brief on what was happening in the Jaypee Palace Hotel where the two leaders were meeting. 

But suddenly the two sides were confronted with a problem of plenty: A breakfast meeting with editors