NEW DELHI, March 28: On Monday the high point for members of the PML delegation visiting India was meeting top Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan at a dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel here. The host was Rajya Sabha member Rajiv Shukla who received Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and his delegation at the airport in the afternoon. Mr Shukla, a Congress MP, had extended an open invitation to the visiting PML delegation.

Most of the PML parliamentarians made an early exit from Pakistan High Commissioner’s dinner to meet the Bollywood celebrity who has been given India’s second highest civil award Padma Shiri.

The other celebrity present at the high-profile function and sharing the table with Sharukh was the ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka who was there with her husband.

A number of PML parliamentarians were introduced to Shah Rukh Khan and they posed with him for photographs. MNA Kashmala Tariq also sat at his table and had a little chat with the celebrity and also met Priyanka.

However, Chaudhry Shujaat and Senator Mushahid Hussain remained at the High Commissioner’s residence till late.—QA

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