Thaksin Shinawatr's name wasn't even mentioned once during the weekly Saturday interview broadcast just now. But it was obvious whom the interviewer and interviewee were referring to.

"The Thai-British extradition pact is a bit outdated now," PM Surayud Chullanont told anchor Chaiya Yimvilai on "Open House at Baan Phitsanuloke" broadcast on Channel 11.

The prime minister then disclosed for the first time that he had raised the possibility of revising the 1912 extradition treaty between Thailand and Great Britain with outgoing British Ambassador David Fall.

The anchor failed to press the premier into going deeper into the extradition issue or whether the "outdated" treaty would make extradition of the former prime minister of Thailand from Britain impossible, at least for the foreseeable future.

Obviously, it's not about Pin Chakkapak, the businessman who has been in exile in Britain for the past decade as a defendant in a number of charges related to financial dealings.

But if you read the premier's lips carefully, you could detect where he stands on the issue.

"It's good that the court has issued an arrest warrant. As government, we will facilitate the process through the public prosecutor's office and foreign ministry," Gen Surayud said.

Again not once was that name mentioned throughout the hour-long interview although his shadow loomed large as they discussed the "vote-no" campaign against the constituion draft in tomorrow's referendum.