Posted on 01/05/2009 6:21:41 PM PST by Steelfish
A 7ft 2in Pakistani woman is expected to be allowed to stay permanently in Britain because she claims her height has made her a target at home. Zainab Bibi arrived two-and-a-half years ago and has spent much of the time since on benefits. She has been able to send money home to her family while Home Office investigators examine her application for political asylum. 'I am very happy here': Zainab Bibl strolling in the park with relatives Miss Zainab, 35, a former holder of the 'world's tallest woman' title, said when she lodged her claim that she was afraid to return to Pakistan because youths had thrown stones at her, pulled at her clothing and she once broke her wrist when attacked. Officials are expected to recommend that she should be allowed to remain in Britain. Yet back in the impoverished, Punjabi village of Mandi Rajana where she was born, her family, friends and police suggest that far from being a victim, her international recognition meant she enjoyed celebrity status whenever she returned home. Her widowed mother Iqbal Bibi, 72, kissed her picture and said: 'She is safe here but if she is happy in England - and the people are very kind to her, she says - then her happiness is our happiness.' The deputy superintendent of police Aslam Shankar said he would guarantee Miss Zainab's safety if she returned. 'She is a big shot now in Pakistan and I would offer her the protection her position merits.' It was after a 15-day trip to Britain carrying out promotional work in June 2006 that Miss Zainab, who had a two-year visitor's visa, lodged her asylum claim and was given a council flat in Stockport, together with £40 a week
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A 7ft 2in Pakistani woman is expected to be allowed to stay permanently in Britain because she claims her height has made her a target at home.
Zainab Bibi arrived two-and-a-half years ago and has spent much of the time since on benefits.
She has been able to send money home to her family while Home Office investigators examine her application for political asylum.
‘I am very happy here’: Zainab Bibl strolling in the park with relatives
‘I am very happy here’: Zainab Bibl strolling in the park with relatives
Miss Zainab, 35, a former holder of the ‘world’s tallest woman’ title, said when she lodged her claim that she was afraid to return to Pakistan because youths had thrown stones at her, pulled at her clothing and she once broke her wrist when attacked.
Officials are expected to recommend that she should be allowed to remain in Britain.
Yet back in the impoverished, Punjabi village of Mandi Rajana where she was born, her family, friends and police suggest that far from being a victim, her international recognition meant she enjoyed celebrity status whenever she returned home.
Her widowed mother Iqbal Bibi, 72, kissed her picture and said: ‘She is safe here but if she is happy in England - and the people are very kind to her, she says - then her happiness is our happiness.’
The deputy superintendent of police Aslam Shankar said he would guarantee Miss Zainab’s safety if she returned. ‘She is a big shot now in Pakistan and I would offer her the protection her position merits.’
It was after a 15-day trip to Britain carrying out promotional work in June 2006 that Miss Zainab, who had a two-year visitor’s visa, lodged her asylum claim and was given a council flat in Stockport, together with £40 a week in benefits.
Her request to stay took family and friends by surprise because in recent years she had used her height to earn money, making dozens of public appearances in her own country and abroad.
In Mandi Rajana, family friend Ghulam Mustafa said: ‘She was teased when she was younger but it has been no problem for at least eight years. She is safe if she returns but life is very hard here. It is nothing like England, which is more comfortable.’
Miss Zainab, who has moved to a house in Manchester, speaks little English. Through an interpreter, she said she believed her application would be successful and added that she was living in a free house with free medical treatment and a ‘generous’ allowance.
• Miss Zainab was deposed as the world’s tallest woman in 2004 by 7ft 7in American Sandy Allen, 53, who died in 2008. The distinction is now believed to be held by 36-year-old Yao Defen, from China, who is also 7ft 7in.
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She can stay, but only on the condition that she continue sending money from her welfare checks to her family in Pakistan.
I have no doubt she would be a target in Pakistan.
Seems the taliban can’t hit the broad side of a barn, but the barn side of a broad is easy pickins...
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Is this the one that was in NY City on FNF a month or so ago? Long legs fur sure.
Don’t know....
She’s the one on the right...
If I move to Britain can I get on Benefits too???????
3x ugly
I know a certain 7’4 Punjabi Playboy that would like some of that.
I just met a girl in my town who is darn near close to 7 feet tall. I’ve never, ever seen a woman so tall. It’s very bizarre...and she has black hair and extremely white skin. Almost kabuki. She’s a very sweet woman, I think a bit slow, though...I wonder if it’s some kind of disease...
Seven foot two, eyes ain’t blue,
looks like she’s on the dole, too:
has anybody seen my gal?
“It was after a 15-day trip to Britain carrying out promotional work in June 2006 that Miss Zainab, who had a two-year visitor’s visa, lodged her asylum claim and was given a council flat in Stockport, together with £40 a week in benefits.”
Nice deal for doing nuttin’.
Paki vs Anglo-Saxon; which way to go?
Now there’s a “brick hospital”.
I’ve always been curious what it would be like to date an Amazon.
I don’t know, but the Anglo Saxon is less likely to explode on you.
Ask Tom Cruise
Just give her a job cleaning gutters!
Born for that position!
Mutt n’ Jeff
Ok..
Then who’s the one in the middle?
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Hmm, an interesting reflection.
good or bad?
Marfan’s syndrome. Cardiac issues often occur
You noticed!
Isn’t it also called gigantism? Didn’t Andre the Giant (Fezzik in “Princess Bride”) have that also?
Behead those who deny asylum! What are you staring at, shorty?
Never saw Princess Bride.
I think that was an old term
Lincoln is suspected of having it
Some Brit working couple will be taxed into childlessness to pay for her. Until she drops spawn, when four or five couples will then be taxed.
Down with the Christians, up with Islam.
Funny movie.
“Rest well... and dream of large women.”
Perhaps certain movies are only now getting play in Pak:
LoL. I had to go back and look again.
Do you have any idea how hard it's going to be to find a place to get a lap dance to get that graphic out of my mind here in SUDAN!
Sign her to an NBA contract immediately!
Pakistan’s tallest man (7’7”), tallest woman (7’2”),
shortest man (2’6”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qi8LHcqQLk
and smallest woman (2’4”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLtZADDha_s
Deputy Superintendent Obvious has spoken.
Put his picture on your locker and keep saying to anyone that will listen, “Isn’t she just beautiful?”. After a couple of weeks they’ll pack you up and ship you out.
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