vichitra
August 14th, 2004, 03:10 PM
Once when Rajiv went to Pakistan on a state visit , Musharraf showed him the state-of-the-art telephone system of Pakistan. Rajiv Gandhi even made a call to hell and spoke to his mother Indira Gandhi for about 10 minutes. The bill came to just 1 Pakistani Rupee and he was highly impressed by Pakistan's telephone system.
After coming back to India he ordered the ministry of communications to come up
with an equally good system in record time so that he too could show it to Zia Haq. Indeed when the Pakistani came to India , Rajiv Gandhi showed him the telephone system. Zia Haq spoke to Bhutto in hell for about 10 minutes. The bill came to 300 Indian Rupees. Zia Haq made a sarcastic remark about
the cost of the call to hell being so expensive . Rajiv Gandhi was furious and wanted to know why the call to hell was so expensive. The engineers immediately discovered the reason - a call to hell from India is a long distance call, but from Pakistan its a local call only!!
After coming back to India he ordered the ministry of communications to come up
with an equally good system in record time so that he too could show it to Zia Haq. Indeed when the Pakistani came to India , Rajiv Gandhi showed him the telephone system. Zia Haq spoke to Bhutto in hell for about 10 minutes. The bill came to 300 Indian Rupees. Zia Haq made a sarcastic remark about
the cost of the call to hell being so expensive . Rajiv Gandhi was furious and wanted to know why the call to hell was so expensive. The engineers immediately discovered the reason - a call to hell from India is a long distance call, but from Pakistan its a local call only!!