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Shake Hands or Kick Out
The refusal of two prime ministers to shake hands at the White House makes news but undiplomatic, tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats and consuls is less likely to generate them. The formal process of declaring an official a persona non grata is only an optional means of ridding a host nation of unwelcome guests. The Kashmir Herald highlights an extreme option evident in relations between Pakistan and India: Vicious assaults of a vulgar, crude and uncivilized nature. Quite effective, and cyclical, the paper reports.-- Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.
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