Very well read, highly intelligent and abundantly blessed with a sense ofhumour, wit and repartee were his stock in trade both in politics and more particularly in his social interactions. Pulling pranks on his friends was part of his nature and he pulled many,on many.
Very well read, highly intelligent and abundantly blessed with a sense of humour, wit and repartee were his stock in trade both in politics and more particularly in his social interactions
Once and once only I got my own back on him. I learnt through his wife Aamna that an old long forgotten English maternal aunt of his had recently passed away in England and had remembered Salmaan and his sisters with a modest bequest in her will. Naturally Salman had been very touched by this. This was my cue to put on my best British accent, pretend to be a London solicitor acting as executor of his late aunt’s will and call him. There were no mobile phones or caller ID then. After introducing myself as Richard Smith I proceeded to inform him that his aunt had also owned a palatial home in acres of land in Scotland and in a just discovered codicil to her will had bequeathed this entire £5 million worth of property to him. I told him that I would be contacting him again with some paperwork to sign and Salmaan said he looked forward to that. I clearly had done a convincing job as even this normally sharp and astute man appeared to have swallowed the story in its entirety.
He can be reached at @HarounRashid2
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