**NEW YORK: Dr Tanveer Zamani on Friday denied her wedding with President Zardari and also claimed that she has never met President Zardari either in US or elsewhere.
“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. Bloggers and journalists do not have the right to make up stories and disrupt the lives of people,” she said in an email message.
She explicitly and clearly denied being married or being subject to a proposal or notion of being married to the president, whom she holds in high esteem. Tanveer Zamani said in her email that this is her first ever denial on the matter while rumours and emails about her wedding have been in circulation for the last three weeks.**
**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 media group does not apologise for a report about President Asif Ali Zardari’s purported marriage to a doctor named Tanveer Zamani. Locke Lord Bissell and **
Liddell, the legal firm in New York, served notice on Friday on the Jang group for publishing a libellous article about Zardari.
The notice was issued on behalf of Mark Siegel, the publicist of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, and the Bhutto-Zardari family.
The notice said Zamani had confirmed to Siegel that she had “never met” Zardari.
The Jang group, which has been running a campaign against Zardari since last year, had reported extensively on a rumour posted on several hitherto unheard of blogs and websites that the President had “secretly” married Zamani, a New York-based physician and PPP activist.
What I don't get is why does the Zardari family need to pull a lawyer from New York to defend them. You're the president of a sovereign nation for crying out loud.
What I don't get is why does the Zardari family need to pull a lawyer from New York to defend them. You're the president of a sovereign nation for crying out loud.
