“Zinda hey Bibi”
“Zinda hey”

Imran, as a matter of fact I have given such compliments to people, myself, without any sexual connotations or overtones. For me ‘hugging’ doesn’t mean sexual embrace, it’s just hugging. I do hug friends, both male and female, to express and to communicate my affection and my admiration and my respect. I suppose, it’s a matter of perception. For me a woman, including one from your family, is a person with same amount of personal dignity as I have for myself and she has a right to expect from a normal human being mutual respect for her / his sense of self esteem. I, personally, fail to imagine myself with a a lust or infatuation for every woman or all ‘things’ faminine; equally I can’t imagine or fantasize being target of sexual desire or even fantasy for every other human being. You know what I am trying to say?

In my view, it was a good warm friendly gesture by our president to an important person who is a prospective partner to negotiate and deal with our mutual interests. I consider a friendly basis a much stronger basis to start any political dialogue, I always feel comfortable, I am sure others too, to deal with friends rather than adversaries where mutual trust lacks.