BAHAWALPUR, March 13: The “world’s tallest woman” has expressed resentment over the publication of her photograph in the Guinness Book of World Records without her permission and threatened the Guinness Book management with a law suit if she does not get due monetary benefits within a month.

Speaking at a press conference in the presence of seven-foot-two Zainab Bibi who is illiterate, her promoter Asghar Bahawalpuri said that the photo, which appeared on page 51 of the Guinness Book’s 2003 edition, was taken in Jordan about a year ago, from where it was presumably provided to the book management by the photographer without Zainab’s permission and knowledge.

The photo of 28-year-old Zainab has been published along with that of Pakistan’s tallest man Azad Khan Masood of South Waziristan Agency who is seven feet eight inches tall.

Mr Asghar regretted that Zainab’s introduction had not been carried by the Guinness Book 2003 along with the photograph.

Ms Zainab claimed that the book management paid around $6,000 to people whose photographs and introduction were published in the book.

She told questioners that she had visited a number of countries to project the country abroad. She used the money she had earned abroad to build herself a house in Chak 285/GB in Toba Tek Singh district.