She also met with Jordan's King Abdullah, Turkish President Gul and Turkish Prime Minster Erdogan.
Gul ignored the ban and used his Twitter account to express his hope that “this practice will not last long.”
By mid-morning, even some government officials had had enough and, like Gul, broke the ban.
She says that since Gul comes from a poor agricultural family, she has been ignored by the authorities.
Local officials are striking back against Gul with their own version of events.
Then to the mahout she continued in Urdu, "Gul Dad, are you hurt?"
See Hearne's rambling discourse concerning Rosamond, at the end of Gul.
When I seemed safely off, Gul got up and went to the stable as her custom was.
Her whole soul for me is waste and empty,—my love Gul Assl, for her I mourn.
I told the groom to be silent, and when next Gul took a horse from the stable to saddle another quickly and bring it to me.
