Cricket Diplomacy: Gilani helps UPA to shift focus from scams

The past six months have been particularly bad for the Manmohan Singh government, and the Congress, which have seen the hype surrounding their comfortable victory in the 2009 general election give way to despair and popular disenchantment, thanks to the eruption of a series of scandals, its failure to rein in prices of essential commodities, especially food items, and the resurrection of the Telangana statehood agitation. The government's credibility and image took a severe knock with the Opposition taking it to task for goofing up on vital issues. By inviting his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani to watch the ICC World Cup semi-finals featuring teams of the two countries at Mohali, Singh has made a determined bid to wrest the initiative, at least in the foreign policy turf.  

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