‘Mulk mangne aye they aur pen par pahunch gaey hain’

NEW DELHI: Former Hurriyat Conference chairman Prof Abdul Ghani Bhat was put into an embarrassing spot after he could not find a pen to take notes when the Hurriyat leaders met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Monday night. Hesitantly, Bhat pointed out that he had forgotten to bring his pen. The prime minister promptly responded and gave Bhat his own pen before anybody could fetch one for him. Jocularly, the prime minister was quoted remarking, “Mulk mangne aye they aur pen par pahunch gaey hain (You came to seek a country and now want just a pen).” Professor Bhat, who is in his late sixties, has been rather forgetful during this trip to Delhi. He left his mobile phone at his home in Srinagar, his spectacles at the airport and his pen at the residence of a prominent Kashmiri businessman in Greater Kailash, a posh NRI colony in South Delhi. iftikhar gilani

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