Beauty queen grilled for ‘blowing kisses at Musharraf’

Following the brouhaha over this ‘breaking news’, Toronto-based Sarkari was invited by a Pakistani TV channel to its Dubai studio recently for an interview. Though the beauty queen accepted the invite graciously, she was shocked by the host’s aggressive tone during the interview.

Sarkari was ‘berated for bringing a bad name to Pakistan’ for her participation in beauty pageants and particularly her comments on Musharraf, the weekly Friday Times reported.

The beauty queen said the interviewer seemed to be on a mission to discredit her and Musharraf. When Sarkari returned to Toronto, she telephoned the producer and objected to being lured to Dubai with false promises, but he said he was not at fault and was merely ‘following orders’.

Sarkari recorded her phone conversation with the producer and has sent the tape to a rival channel.

She had dedicated a long post to Musharraf on the Pakistani pageant’s website. “Going to international pageants we have found out how much Musharraf is known to all beautiful young girls, the beauty queens. Some have replied, “Oh yes, the general man (sic).” While others have said, “’the man who rules Pakistan’,” she wrote.