What are the chances of you going on holiday to Madrid, seeing a stranger in a crowded street, deciding to strike up a conversation with that person, only to find out you go to the same university, that you live on the same street and that you in fact are living in their very room while they are away for the summer? It sounds an unlikely tale, but this is precisely what happened to Saeed in the summer of 1956 – in fact he puts the chances of it taking place as small as one in a billion billion. However, it is only one of several strange coincidences during Saeed’s like, which you can read about here. Others include bumping into an old friend, Zafar Ismail at a restaurant in London, and coming across another buddy, Raheel, in a street in Munich.

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