Pakistan's tallest woman passes away

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2018-07-19T15:42:00+05:00 Web Desk

Pakistan's tallest woman, Zainab Bibi, passed away on Thursday. 

Zainab was admitted to Allied Hospital Faisalabad, two months before . She was 46 years old at the time of death. She was reportedly suffering with diabetes and osteoporosis. 

Zainab was 7 feet 2 inches and in 2003 was declared the world's tallest woman, earning her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.  

In an interview to Dawn newspaper last year, she said that she was striving to make ends meet owing to her illness and lack of financial cooperation from the government. And her sister had to sell pakoras in order to make ends meet.

After that Zainab Bibi was handed over a cheque worth Rs 2 million by the government by the government of Nawaz Sharif to ease her predicament.  

Her funeral ceremony will be held in her ancestral village Rajana, Toba Taik Singh. 

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