Seems to be related to digging on Hussein's Paki roommate Sohale Siddiqi (a/k/a Hal Siddiqi) and his other Paki buddies.
CORRECT. Two different people.
Of possible interest, here's a 2008 dig the guys over at FreeRepublic did on Chandoo.
FTA:
Barack Obama visited Pakistan stayed with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, who are the Chandoo Brothers?
http://www.mikefrancesa.com/wordpress/?p=1190 ^ | September 18th, 2008
Posted on 10/2/2008, 2:14:51 AM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2095574/posts
For some reason Barack Obama has never mentioned his three week stay in Pakistan in any of his writings. On the infamous San Francisco trip in which Obama called small town Americans “bitter” he also bragged that he had more foreign policy credentials than Hillary Clinton and John McCain. One of the things he listed on his resume was his extensive foreign travel including a 1981 trip to Pakistan. However since this admission, slip of the tongue, or however you would characterize it, Obama has never mentioned this trip again.
Although his campaign manager did discuss it when pressed:
As a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis In 1981, Obama transferred from Occidental to Columbia. In between, he traveled to Pakistan - a trip that enhanced his foreign policy qualifications, he maintained in a private speech at a San Francisco fundraiser last month. Obama spent “about three weeks” in Pakistan, traveling with Hamid and staying in Karachi with Chandoo’s family, said Bill Burton, Obama’s press secretary.
The Chandoo he was referring to is Mohammed Hassan Chandoo which this website claims is now a major campaign bundler for Obama:
Bundler: Hasan Chandoo
Employer: Oppenheimer & Co State: NY Bundler Status for 2008: Bundler for Barack Obama, raised at least $100,000.00
Chandoo is one of the Chandoo Brothers, Mohammed Askari Chandoo has his own website entitled www.chandoo.com.
Sheesh anon. Can't you tell the diff between a Paki and an Indian-American?
Richard Verma is a US citizen, former Air Force judge advocate before diplomatic career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Verma
Hussein went to Pakistan with CHANDOO, NOT SIDIQQI. Chandoo is Occidental, Sidiqqi is Columbia.