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'Vajpayee has a good sense of humour' ISLAMABAD, Thursday (AFP) A Pakistani minister attached to Indian Premier Atal Behari Vajpayee during his stay in Islamabad for this week's regional summit found him a man with good sense of humour. "He (Vajpayee) is a man with good sense of humour," Pakistan finance minister Shaukat Aziz, who was minister-in-waiting with Vajpayee, told reporters at a press conference here Wednesday. "He is quite observant. He noticed all the banners and also used one of the slogans in his speech. He was very happy, (and) he left Pakistan in a good mood," Aziz said. "We watched the Australia-India cricket match together on the television in the hotel." Aziz said Vajpayee was fond of music and whenever he sat in his car his assistant turned on the compact disc player. "I asked him, 'Do you chose the CDs yourself?', and he said 'yes'." Aziz said Vajpayee listened to oldies from Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar. "I gifted him CDs of (Pakistani vocalists) Noor Jehan, Nusrat Fateh Ali, Mehdi Hasan, Ghulam Ali, Nayyara Noor, Farida Khanum and Iqbal Bano." Vajpayee gave Aziz his book "21 Poems", translations of his poems in Hindi. "Vajpayee gifted me his book with his autograph on it," Aziz said. |
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