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Major row over Sharif purportedly calling PM 'village woman'

New Delhi:  A major controversy erupted today over Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif purportedly calling his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh a “village woman” with Narendra Modi terming it as the “biggest insult” of the Prime

However, Dutt on Twitter said, “this (Mir's version)is a distortion entirely” and that Sharif said “nothing of this kind”.



Dutt said there were bits in the interaction that were off the record. Secondly, this is distortion even of the off the record, she said.

She went on to add that the bits that were off record did not include any pejorative word about the PM.  Mir in the programme quoted Sharif as saying, “It seems as if Manmohan Singh went to complain to Obama about me like a ‘dehati aurat'.