The Prime Minister's Media Adviser has denied a report carried by the Indian Express on Sunday that suggested that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took up with External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna his public criticism of Home Secretary G.K. Pillai.
Quoting government sources, the report said Mr. Krishna was told that his statement — “the timing of Mr. Pillai's remarks could have waited for my arrival from Pakistan as India-Pakistan talks are sensitive” — was inappropriate and unnecessary. The Media Adviser said this claim was “false and mischievous.”