Salem-News Writer Credited for Bringing Clarity to Foreign Minister's Alleged Affair in Pakistan

Is Pakistan's ISI supplying the rumor mill with bad information?

Pakistani Foreign Minister Nina Rabbani Khar

(ISLAMABAD, Pakistan) - Sparks are flying in Pakistan over an alleged affair between Foreign Minister Nina Rabbani Khar, who is 34, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 24-year-old scion of the country’s most powerful dynasty.

Articles about the alleged affair have fueled feverish speculation and outrage in Pakistan since they were reported in a Bangladeshi tabloid earlier this week.

According to Blitz Weekly, the married foreign secretary, who has two young children with her millionaire husband, and Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, want to marry and have been regularly talking on the telephone and sending one another cards.

The rumor mill may have its ties in deep government; the Daily Telegraph suggests that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is behind it, and that the affair rumor is a move made in retribution toward Nina Rabbani Khar's decision to facilitate a United Nations investigation of ISI and thousands of missing people who may have disappeared as part of ISI's long-criticized operations.

William Gomes of Salem-News

In an article published by Pakistan Today, British paper alleges ISI role in Hina-Bilawal affair rumors, our Human Rights Ambassador is credited for connecting the affair to an unscrupulous writer, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury:

Meanwhile, William Gomes, a journalist, has claimed that the man behind the report in Blitz, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is a cheat and fraud.

Gomes quoted a journalist Brenda West as saying “Choudhury operates a shady website called Jethro Conglomerate, for which a scam alert has been posted by an organization that regulates the business dealings of the commodities Choudhury sells. Choudhury states on the Jethro Conglomerates website that he represents a company called Noca. Noca itself does not seem legitimate. It is not licensed. It provides no information about who owns or runs the company. The representatives they do list could be of interest to law enforcement. The Noca site says it is located in Canada but it gives an unpublished Nevada phone number. There is an odor of mobster activity connected with this enterprise, as well as Choudhury’s involvement in it. As we shall see in Choudhury’s published resume, Choudhury worked closely with the indicted mobster, Aziz Mohammed Bhai, who fled Bangladesh in 2009 to avoid imprisonment for various charges, including murder.”
- British paper alleges ISI role in Hina-Bilawal affair rumors