Prefer Sunanda abused me for 10 years than harm herself: Mehr Tarar

Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar, who has been involved in the controversy around Sunanda Pushkar’s death, spoke to UK newspaper The Telegraph and said that she was “shattered” by the death. One day before her death, Sunanda Pushkar went on a now infamous Twitter rant, using Tharoor’s Twitter account to broadcast messages that Tarar had purportedly sent the union minister, professing intense feelings for him. Pushkar later went on to call Tarar an ISI agent and accused her of hacking into her computer, and also trying to break her marriage. [caption id=“attachment_1348243” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Sunanda Pushkar and Shashi Tharoor. IBNLive image[/caption] “I would rather have her abuse me for the next ten years than to see her harm herself,” she said to the newspaper. According to Tarar, she had stayed in touch with Tharoor online after meeting him for a story. She has insisted that their friendship - which consisted of discussing “politics, books and life” - was not romantic in nature. “Dr T is a great guy and he loved her like a romantic saga hero. Nothing meant more to him than making her happy …. Shashi loved Sunanda, and he made sure she knew it. They were inseparable. She was a part of all he did, and her happiness meant more than anything else,” Tarar said. Read the full report here.