White Lies

A story has it that former President Parvez Musharraf actually thinks that human rights activist Asma Jehangir and he have something in common. They are both pall bearers of women's rights and emancipation or so he said recently. Witnesses say Musharraf actually approached Asma, known for her shoot-from-the-mouth attitude towards policy makers and was overheard making an interesting comment and request. "We should get together sometimes" he said "because we both support women empowerment, though we may have different ways of approaching the same goal." And this from a man who in the past would utter the unutterable at the very mention of Asma 's name, especially when the Mukhtaran Mai controversy was at its peak. Well someone has changed his views and it is not the lady activist.

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