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Bashir Ahmad (camel driver)
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Bashir Ahmad (Urdu: بشیر احمد) (c. 1913 – 1970s)〔(Mention of Bashir Ahmad's death )〕 was an impoverished Pakistani camel driver, who in 1961 met with the then US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson and accepted an invitation to come to America.〔(Rubaiyat of Bashir Ahmad - TIME )〕 The vice president soon turned the event into a public relations coup.
==Invitation==
Lyndon Johnson was in Karachi, Pakistan on behalf of President Kennedy as part of a goodwill mission, it was here that he met Bashir Ahmad in a group of camel drivers on a roadside. He pressed the flesh even patting the camels. He used a phrase he had regularly said in his travels, "Y'all come to Washington and see us sometime" but was completely surprised when the illiterate camel driver accepted his offer.〔http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/lyndon_johnson.pdf〕 With the press hot on his heels after the acceptance, the vice-president took advantage of the People-to-People program to fund the Pakistani's travel expenses.〔(Vice President Lyndon Johnson )〕
Another account〔Ruffles and Fourishes, Liz Carpenter p.33-37〕 indicates that Bashir was invited to the Vice President's ranch and that the surprise came not at the time (at least from her point of view), but the next day in the press. Ibrahim Jalis, a popular columnist in Pakistan, reported that everyone was excited by the fact that the vice president had invited Bashir to come to America. Perhaps, he had made the above reported statement while shaking Bashir's hand, leading to the misunderstanding that he had been invited. His column was favorable to Johnson, and contained the quote, "Don't conquer a country, don't conquer a government. If you wish to conquer, conquer the hearts of the people."
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