07 February,2011 07:21 AM IST | | Agencies
An American surgeon has issued a public denial to reports that she has secretly married Pakistan President, Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto.
Reports have swirled around Pakistan that President Zardari was married in Dubai, just over three years after the assassination of his wife, the former PM.
However, the president's lawyers have now begun legal proceedings against a newspaper group that published details of the alleged romance.
The woman at the centre of the rumour, Tanveer Zamani, a 47-year-old doctor, has denied she married him in a ceremony last month.
"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.
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Bloggers and journalists do not have the right to make up stories and disrupt the lives of people," she said in an email message.
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