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Inside Track: Socking it to Jinnah
Singh, as a student, was playing in a hockey match in Peshawar in 1945 when the ball hit a bystander. The man turned out to be none other than Jinnah.
Written by Coomi Kapoor | Updated: May 13, 2018 1:10:30 am
The former prime minister recalled his own indirect encounter with the founder of Pakistan. (Source: AP)
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh seldom speaks. But when he rarely does he always has something interesting to say. Singh’s style of campaigning for his party is not to address rallies but to hold a single press conference in the poll-bound state. In Bengaluru, while speaking to the media, Singh came up with an interesting nugget of information. Someone mentioned the recent controversy over the Muhammad Ali Jinnah photograph at Aligarh Muslim University. The former prime minister recalled his own indirect encounter with the founder of Pakistan. Singh, as a student, was playing in a hockey match in Peshawar in 1945 when the ball hit a bystander. The man turned out to be none other than Jinnah.
Source - Indian Express -
Singh, as a student, was playing in a hockey match in Peshawar in 1945 when the ball hit a bystander. The man turned out to be none other than Jinnah.
Written by Coomi Kapoor | Updated: May 13, 2018 1:10:30 am
The former prime minister recalled his own indirect encounter with the founder of Pakistan. (Source: AP)
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh seldom speaks. But when he rarely does he always has something interesting to say. Singh’s style of campaigning for his party is not to address rallies but to hold a single press conference in the poll-bound state. In Bengaluru, while speaking to the media, Singh came up with an interesting nugget of information. Someone mentioned the recent controversy over the Muhammad Ali Jinnah photograph at Aligarh Muslim University. The former prime minister recalled his own indirect encounter with the founder of Pakistan. Singh, as a student, was playing in a hockey match in Peshawar in 1945 when the ball hit a bystander. The man turned out to be none other than Jinnah.
Source - Indian Express -
