by ANIL K. JOSEPH
“Swagatam! Yeh aapka pehla visit hai?”
For a moment, I was stunned when Ahmad Zaher Faqiri, the Afghan foreign ministry spokesman, spoke to me in chaste Hindi during my first encounter with him in Kabul.
The handsome Afghan diplomat had more in store for me when he belted the popular song ‘Pehla nasha, pehla khumaar, naya pyaar hai, naya intezaar….,” from Bollywood movie Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, to relate my first visit to Kabul.
Faqiri is not the only one in war-torn Afghanistan who is influenced by Hindustan (as India is known in this country) and its famous films.
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(Thanks to Pritam Rohila)