Mehr Tarar, the Pakistani journalist in eye of storm (watch pic)

New Delhi: On Wednesday afternoon, a set of embarrassing tweets were sent from Shashi Tharoor's Twitter account, directed at a Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar that suggested that Tharoor was having an “extra-marital affair” with Tarar. The minister, who has more than 20 lakh followers on Twitter, later clarified that his Twitter ID got reportedly hacked. Mehr Tarar is a journalist who works with Pakistan Times - Daily E-Newspaper. She studied at West Virginia University and lives in Lahore. Here are some of their controversial tweets: I am sending @mehrtars bbbm msgs to the works to see what a horrible woman she is and how she iis stalking my husband Tweets from Tharoor's account were even more curious… @mehrtarar sadly my wife @sptvrock who gave up everything for me found out about my affair with u Mehr Shashi. Shashi. I'm not crying any more. I'm not falling to pieces. I'm more lucid than ever. How little I knew you became visible to me.@mehrtarar You unfollowed me. You don't RT me and you don't answer me on twitter. I can live with your favourites. I have your personal validation have your personal validation of my words, I don't need any public one. For that I will wait until we are together publically really mehr (While the first Tweet had only screenshots, the next three remained on Tharoor's timeline for quite some time)Tharoor then clarified with the following Tweet… Sorry folks, my @Twitter account has been hacked & will be temporarily deactivated. Bear with me while we solve this. Reports emerged that even Sunanda's account was hacked.A visibly flustered Mehr responded with… Okay. What's going on? Who's tweeting to me? I had an 'affair' with Shashi Tharoor and he's tweeting to me??? How does that work? Howeve, Shashi Tharoor and his wife Sunanda issued a joint statement saying that they were distressed by the unseemly controversy that has arisen about some unauthorised tweets from their Twitter accounts.