New York/Islamabad, Feb. 5: The New York-based woman at the centre of a controversy over her purported wedding with the President, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, has said that she has never even met him.
Dr Tanveer Zamani, the physician and Pakistan People’s Party activist whom some hitherto unknown blogs and websites had named as Mr Zardari’s wife, said: “I explicitly and clearly deny being married or being subject to a proposal or notion of being married to the Pakistani President, whom I hold in high esteem”.
In an email sent to the media, Ms Zamani added: “I have never met President Zardari and the only reason I have refrained from commenting on an Internet hoax involving me is because I deemed it against my dignity to respond to such a hoax”.
Meanwhile, a US legal firm representing the Bhutto-Zardari family has threatened to file a lawsuit seeking over $100 million in damages if Pakistan’s Jang group does not apologise for the report about the President’s purported marriage.