Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar said on Saturday she fears for life after a photograph was published in local newspapers showing her hugging a foreigner. "Now I fear for my life," Nilofar Bakhtiar told the Senate standing committee on tourism.
The minister said she risked her life by jumping from a height of over 8,000 feet for a noble cause. She said she was hurt at the way her paragliding jump in France was sensationalised and some elements indulged in her character assassination.
"I had made a commitment to paraglide for the earthquake victims when I was not a federal minister to raise funds for the construction of 15 schools in the quake-affected areas," she said. "I have strengthened my security after Fatwa from the so-called Shariat court and killing of Punjab Minister Zil-e-Humma", said Nilofer.
Nilofar said that former UN secretary general Kofi Annan also jumped to raise donations for tsunami victims on the request of the same French paragliding team with whom she had jumped in France.
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