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Former PoK PM calls on Vajpayee
Onkar Singh in New Delhi
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September 22, 2005 18:07 IST
Sardar Mohammad Abdul Qayyum Khan, former president and prime minister of Pakistan occupied Kashmir who is currently in New Delhi to take part in heart-to-heart deliberations hosted by Indian Council of World Affairs and National Panther's Party headed by Bhim Singh, called on former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The two leaders had forty-five minute discussions. Bhartiya Janata Party president Lal Kishenchand Advani, Barjesh Misra and former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh were also present at the meeting.

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"The meeting was held at the behest of Sardar Qayyum sahib who told Vajpayeeji that he is a big fan of the former prime minister," Jaswant Singh told newsmen after the meeting.

Sardar Qayyum said that he had made a courtesy call on Vajpayee because he had not met the former prime minister when he visited Lahore [Images] in 1999. He said that he was happy with the meeting and also with the outcome of the intra-Kashmir deliberations during his stay in New Delhi.

He is likely to call on Dr Manmohan Singh [Images] and the congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi [Images] in the next few days and meet other prominent leaders from opposition as well.


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