The "brazenly scandalous and malicious" claim in a new book that slain former premier Benazir Bhutto once had a love affair with cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has "gravely hurt" her family members, Pakistan's envoy to the UK said on Thursday.
Benazir, who has been the chairperson of Pakistan's ruling PPP, did not have anything ever to do with Khan while studying in England's famous Oxford University, High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan said in a press statement.
The contradiction by Hasan, a close confidante of Benazir, comes in the wake of a new biography of Khan by Christopher Sandford which claimed the cricketer and the renowned beauty had enjoyed "a close and even a 'sexual' relationship" while studying at Oxford.
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