Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar, at the centre of a controversy involving Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, on Thursday said being labelled an ISI agent by his wife Sunanda Pushkar has put her life in jeopardy.

“I am very happy if there are happy. But I really want to know why Sunanda has put my life in jeopardy by labelling me an ISI agent. My life has been put in danger not only in India but in Pakistan also,” Tarar told.

On Pushkar’s allegation that she was “stalking” Tharoor, she said: “I am not a 15-year-old to stalk someone. She said I am out to spoil Shashi’s election. But Kerala and Lahore are very far off.”

The row erupted on Wednesday after messages involving the three, some of them intimate, were posted on 57-year-old Tharoor’s widely followed Twitter account.

Pushkar claimed on the micro-blogging site she had posted from her husband’s account some private messages allegedly sent to him by Tarar to show “how she is stalking my husband”.

She alleged 45-year-old Tarar was an Inter-Services Intelligence agent trying to “break” her marriage while she was away for medical treatment.