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My job was to lie for India: Ex-Indian diplomat Syed Akbaruddin
short by / on Thursday, 2 April, 2026
Retired Indian diplomat Syed Akbaruddin dropped the most honest answer in diplomatic history, a diplomat's job is to lie for his country. Then he revealed something worse: the lying doesn't even matter. If interests align, deals happen. If they don't, even truth changes nothing. Diplomacy was never about honesty.
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