Article: Beauty queen grilled for bringing 'bad name to Pakistan'.

Beauty queen grilled for bringing 'bad name to Pakistan'

Islamabad, May 10 (PTI) -- A Pakistani beauty queen who recently expressed a desire to date President Pervez Musharraf is being chided for "bringing a bad name to Pakistan".

Reigning Miss Pakistan World Mahleej Sarkari surprised everyone last month by saying she "loved" Musharraf and wanted to "date" him. She even had pictures of herself blowing kisses at a Musharraf portrait posted on a website.

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 ...

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