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7 Apr 2010 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal
How Zardari Cut Manmohan Cold

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s plan to highlight cross-border terrorism with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari in Afghanistan will have to wait.

The two heads of state were in Kabul for the inauguration of Hamid Karzai’s second term. A senior level diplomat from Singh’s contingent said, “The Prime Minister did manage to get Zardari alone near the bar at the dinner party. After exchanging pleasantries, he was about to discuss new intelligence showing no let-up in jehadis entering Kashmir when Zardari asked, ‘What's the only thing visible in Pakistan during power cuts at night?’”

When Singh replied that he did not know, Zardari reportedly said, ‘my teeth’ and laughed uproariously. The source added that before Singh could say anything, Zardari emptied his glass and said, ‘The post office recently released a stamp with my face to mark my presidency and now people don't know which side of the stamp to spit on.’

“What do you think of that? Funny, isn’t it.”

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18 Nov 2009 | BY Madhavankutty Pillai
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