Asked if she knew Tharoor, Tarar said, “I met him in April last year for an interview in India. Then I met him in June in Dubai in a social gathering. Yes, I have been in touch with him once in a while on Twitter and email.”
She claimed because of the controversy, she got an additional 3,000 followers on Twitter and a majority of them were from India. “Except for five per cent of them, all have supported me.”
Mehr Tarar is a journalist who works with Pakistan Times. .
The minister, who has more than 20 lakh followers on Twitter, later clarified that his Twitter ID got reportedly hacked.
Tharoor also issued a joint statement with his wife that they both are happily married and denied rumours of their divorce.