Friendship with Tharoor over before Sunanda's death: Mehr Tarar

September 10, 2015 22:00

Pakistani columnist Mehr Tarar, who was embroiled in a controversy surrounding the death of former Union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar, has broken her silence on the issue in a book slamming the media for dragging her in an "unsavoury story across the border".

In her book titled 'Leaves from Lahore' to be released next month, Tarar writes, "When bits of your personal life become a part of breaking news; when your life is caricatured into a few lines of half-truths and paraphrased analyses, you watch in helplessness and achieve a state of icy silence. Of wordlessness."

Calling Tharoor "a friend", she said whatever relationship she had with Shashi in the past ended before the unfortunate incident of January 2014. "Pushkar's death had no connection with this, but I was dragged into a vicious and slanderous campaign," she said.

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