Begum Sehba on her arrival in New Delhi on April 16. (Photo: AFP)

New Delhi : Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's wife Sehba on April 17 went on a short guided tour of the city as her husband was busy in talks with the Indian leadership.

Accompanied by officials from the Pakistan High Commission, Sehba visited Qutab Minar and Mughal emperor Humayun’s tomb.

In the visitor’s diary at the tomb, Sehba described the monument as a “beautiful testimony of our heritage.” In all, she spent close to an hour at the two monuments, which were closed to the public on account of the Pakistani first lady’s visit. Sehba avoided any interaction with the media, which trailed her across the city.

Wearing a green salwar kurta, she watched parts of the India-Pakistan cricket match at Ferozshah Kotla Stadium with Musharraf, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, his wife Gursharan Kaur and Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi from a bullet-proof enclosure earlier in the day.

Sehba also joined her husband for an official lunch hosted by the President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

According to sources in the presidential palace, Pakistan’s first lady enjoyed the Indian delicacies prepared specially for them. She even interviewed the Indian president. “Who has influenced your thoughts the most?” she reportedly asked Kalam.

Pat came the president’s reply that Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi was one among those who influenced his thoughts. Sources said she was seen chatting up Bollywood heroine Rani Mukherjee, whose role in ‘Black’ is a current topic of discussion in Pakistan.

Sehba also had an unexpected gift from southern India. A group of peace-lovers in Hyderabad sent her four pairs of lac bangles and a set of handcrafted glass bangles in the colors of the Indian national flag, glittering with gold and silver dust.

The bangles were sent because they had read in the newspapers that she had made queries about the bangles made at Lad Bazar near Charminar in Hyderabad.

Pakistan High Commissioner to India Aziz Ahmed Khan’s wife Ayesha had invited shopkeepers to their official residence, where Sehba spent some time, to display their wares.