NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s high commissioner in Delhi, Riaz Hussain Khokhar, created a bit of a mystery when he had a brief meeting with India’s dissident minister Arjun Singh on the day the media carried a charge of Rs 1 crore bribe against prime minister Narasimha Rao.
It now transpires that Khokhar had expressed the with to India’s external affairs ministry for permission to pay a courtesy call was granted on the day the charges against Rao appeared in newspapers.
One interpretation was that it was an attempt by the prime minister to damage Arjun Singh in the dominant Hindu community which is intensely antPakistan. Another is that bureaucracy put up papers to Rao considering that he might be on the way outanda subsequent discovery by Arjun Singh if he takes: over as prime minister would create problems to eming officers.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 25, 1993
