Friday, July 04, 2008

mohammedan logic: Transactions with a kafir

jul 3rd, 2008

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From: K

http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/may/10shaw.htm

 

Manekshaw was at his evocative best when he recalled his acquaintance with President Yahya Khan when the latter had worked under him in the military operations directorate of the British Indian Army just before partition.

Yahya Khan, then a colonel, was impressed by Manekshaw's James motorcycle which he had bought for Rs 1400. ''I told him that he could have the vehicle for as much. He said he would give only Rs 1000. I said okay,'' Manekshaw recalled.

 

But then,...

''But I don't have a thousand rupees now, I will send it to you later,'' Yahya Khan said. It was August 13, 1947. Twenty-one years later Yahya Khan became the president of Pakistan. ''I never received the Rs 1000, but he gave me the whole of East Pakistan,'' Manekshaw said amid thunderous applause.

 

The Field Marshal could afford to joke about it, but the fact remains that he never got the promised thousand rupees, Bangladesh or no Bangladesh.



2 comments:

Unknown said...

Rajiv. Not a single member of the cabinet showed up at his funeral..Way to go AK Anthony and Co.

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Unknown said...

Oops Rajeev!! Didnt mean to spell your name with an "i".