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Love-birds take flight
KARACHI: Pakistan’s beleaguered `Romeo and Juliet’, whose marriage was declared legal by a court earlier this week, have flown to Paris en route to the US, a lawyer for the couple said today.
Humaira and Mehmood Butt, whose tribulations have riveted Pakistan, faced harassment and detention, before a Lahore High Court judge upheld their secret marriage.
Humaira was accused of adultery by her parents after she announced her marriage to Butt, who holds US residency.
Father figure
MANILA: Philippine President Joseph Estrada said on Saturday that he is willing to act as the father of a teenage beauty queen who claims she is his daughter.
Speaking on his weekly radio show, the 61-year-old Estrada said he would take responsibility for the girl, although he declined to confirm whether she was his real daughter.
“If she has no father, then I am willing to act as her father so that this matter will be finished,” Estrada said. In a message to the girl,he said, “Come to me and I will adopt you and if you are really my child, I will assist you seriously.”
The girl’s mother has been quoted in local newspapers this week as saying that Estrada, a former movie star, was the father of the girl. A palace spokesman originally denied the statement, but Estrada, who admits to fathering several children out of wedlock, later admitted that he did not know if the girl, 18 year-old Josephine Rose Ejercito, was his child.
