Faisalabad, July 19 (TNS): The tallest woman in Pakistan, Zainab bibi passed away on Thursday after a long spell of illness in Allied Hospital Faisalabad.
According to media reports, Zainab, 46, was recently admitted to Allied Hospital, Faisalabad.
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.
She was suffering from diabetes and osteoporosis, and in an interview last year, Zainab had said she was striving to make both ends meet owing to her illness and lack of financial cooperation from the government.
Later, as promised by then-prime minister Nawaz Sharif, she was handed over a cheque worth Rs2 million by the government to ease her plight.
Zainab hailed from Rajana area of Toba Tek Singh in Punjab.
