'They didn't let me meet Zarin'

She was the cynosure of all eyes the last time President Pervez Musharraf came. But Kashmiro, his nanny, could not meet Musharraf's mother when the latter visited the family's ancestral home in old Delhi on Thursday.

The crowds and the heavy security kept her at bay.

"I could not meet her. I tried waving my hand at the car window, but she never noticed. I saw her, but could not call out aloud," said Kashmiro, fondly called Anaro bibi by the Musharrafs as well as the current residents of the area.

Sitting at a street corner and munching a piece of roti when IANS found her, Kashmiro showed disappointment at not meeting her old acquaintance - the Pakistani head of state's mother Zarin.

"She was carrying Pervez and I was 12 years old when she came to Neherwali Haveli. Later, for everything he was sent to me. 'Go to Anaro bibi' everyone used to tell him," Kashmiro said.