New Delhi: Will the veteran Kashmiri leader and former state chief minister Farooq Abdullah be able to speak in parliament – as he said he would soon do – before the ongoing session is prorogued on April 3?Immediately after New Delhi decided to revoke his Public Safety Act (PSA) detention, thus allowing free movement of 82-year-old Abdullah from March 13 onwards, he told his supporters who assembled outside his house in Srinagar that day, “Today, I don’t have words. I am free today. Now, I will be able to go to Delhi and attend the parliament and speak for you all.”However, on the late evening of March 13, speaking to former Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) head A.S. Dulat on the telephone, the top National Conference (NC) leader, a Rajya Sabha member, said he would “take 10-15 days” to visit Delhi.In an exclusive interview to The Wire, Dulat, also the former special director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) who had served in Kashmir, said, “I did ask him (about his impending visit to Delhi). I said, you were keen to speak in parliament, when are you going to come? His response was, in 10-15 days, I shall come.”On asked in the talk show The Interview with Karan Thapar whether that meant Abdullah would not be able to attend the ongoing session, Dulat replied, “I don’t know. It is for him to figure it out.”Dulat, however, added, “What is troubling him is his eye (Abdullah had two cataract operations during his detention). I think he probably needs a week or ten days of rest.”The author of the critically acclaimed Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years, who was also the advisor on Kashmir to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, added, “He was happy (at his release) But the sense I got was that he has not completely recovered from the shock of his release.”So, did it come as a completely surprise to him? “Well you know, when you are locked up for seven months and just set free, it takes some time, I guess, to adjust to the new situation.”Watch | Exclusive: Former RAW Chief Reveals Government Back Channel to Farooq AbdullahDulat also told Karan Thapar that Abdullah might be a little restrained in speaking out to ensure that the release of other leaders is not jeopardised by it.On March 11, Abdullah’s detention order under the PSA was extended for another three months. Then two days later, it was revoked all together. On being asked about it categorically, Dulat said, “It was strange. But I think it was a typical bureaucratic reaction. Somebody who was to do the job, realising that the PSA was lapsing on the 13th, probably extended it on the 11th not knowing what Delhi was thinking, which way Delhi was thinking.”Watch the full interview below.