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General Pervez
Musharraf
by Ranga
 "WITH
compliments" wrote General Pervez Musharraf on the sketch when I
showed it to him after he laid a wreath on the samadhi of Mahatma
Gandhi at Rajghat. He affixed his signature below it and asked me
whether I could hold an exhibition of my collections in Pakistan. I only
replied: "Yes, but it is in your hands, sir!"
General Musharraf, who seized power
from Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan to become the President,
was in Delhi on July 14, 2001, on his way to Agra to attend the summit
meeting between India and Pakistan. The security was extremely tight all
through and it was not easy to penetrate it. However, my meeting with
General Musharraf though went off easily. It was not easy to cross over
the barrier of security check-ups at all the places where General
Musharraf went. I took more time to search for him even though making
the sketch took only a few minutes.
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