{"id":5755,"date":"2008-05-24T06:56:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T06:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/05\/india-has-visitor-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T06:56:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T06:56:36","slug":"india-has-visitor-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/05\/india-has-visitor-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"India has a visitor from Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com.S3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/PM's%20Friends.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image image-_original\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com.S3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/PM's%20Friends.jpg\" alt=\"PM's Friends.jpg\"><\/a>India has an old visitor from Pakistan.  Although he seems ordinary, he is anything but.  He shared a bench in school with the Indian Prime Minister in his village school in Gah a village in Pakistan.  He has some special soveniers for him:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Soil and water of the village.<br>\n\u2013 Manmohan Singh\u2019s school certificates from Class I to Class IV (wonder how he got those jobs without complete school certificates?!)<br>\n\u2013 Photographs of Gah village and Katasraj temple<br>\n\u2013 Punjabi tillae wali jutti.<\/p>\n<p>He is unaware if he will need to take an appointment with the PM and remarks in a very simple and uncomplicated way when asked <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Childhood_friend_from_Pak_arrives_to_meet_PM\/articleshow\/3067434.cms\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">about the appointment<\/a><!--break--> \u2013<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Oh lae lengae, uske ghar chalae jayangae, bhabhi hain, bachae hain. Daftar ka nahin koi shauk mujhe, mujhae to woh 11-12 saal wali umar ka pyar pata hai  <\/i>(We will take the appointment, or we will go straight to his house, his wife and kids are there. I am not keen on meeting him in his office, I just want to see my childhood friend)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just that his friend\u2019s house is one of the highest security building in the country! \ud83d\ude42  I am sure Dr. Singh will meet his friend but I doubt his gifts to his childhood friends will be as valuable as theirs were for him?  There is rarely anything that trumps love!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has an old visitor from Pakistan.  Although he seems ordinary, he is anything but.  He shared a bench in school with the Indian Prime Minister in his village school in Gah a village in Pakistan.  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