NEW DELHI: Shashi Tharoor junior minister for HR, found himself at the centre of an unseemly controversy Wednesday evening after intimate messages, supposedly sent to him by a Pakistani woman journalist , were posted on his widely followed, verified Twitter account.Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar claimed on Twitter that she was posting from her husband's account, intimate private messages sent to him by Lahore-based journalist Mehr Tarar , to show the world "how she is stalking my husband". Pushkar confirmed to ET that she had posted the messages on Tharoor's Twitter account and her Twitter account had not been hacked."Our accounts have not been hacked and I have been sending out these tweets. I cannot tolerate this. This is a Pakistani woman who is an ISI (Inter Services Intelligence agent , and she is stalking my husband. And you know how men are."Our accounts have not been hacked and I have been sending out these tweets. I cannot tolerate this. This is a Pakistani woman who is an ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) agent, and she is stalking my husband. And you know how men are. He is flattered by the attention. I took upon myself the crimes of this man during IPL (Indian Premier League). I will not allow this to be done to me. I just can't tolerate this. I have nothing more to say," she said, speaking on the phone.Tharoor posted on Twitter and told ET on the phone that his account has been hacked. He said he wasn't aware that his wife had tweeted anything. "What you are saying is mystifying to me. Let me get to the bottom of this," he said, and excused himself saying he needed to attend a meeting. He did not respond to a text message asking if he wanted to respond to his wife's subsequent quote to this newspaper."Sorry folks, my Twitter account has been hacked and will be temporarily deactivated. Bear with me while we solve this," he posted on Twitter. But his account remained active at the time of writing.Tharoor, a former United Nations diplomat and the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram, is one of the most followed Indian politicians on Twitter, with more than two million followers.Tharoor resigned in 2010 as junior minister for external affairs after Indian Premier League's then chairman Lalit Modi alleged that Tharoor's friend Sunanda Pushkar had been gifted sweat equity in a consortium that was bidding to become the Kerala team in the twenty-over Cricket tournament. Tharoor said at the time that his support to the consortium bidding for the Kochi franchise was purely as a mentor and he did not benefit from it financially. Tharoor and Pushkar married subsequently.Tarar, the Pakistani journalist , distanced herself from the controversy. "Okay. What's going on? Who's tweeting to me? I had an 'affair' with Shashi Tharoor and he's tweeting to me??? How does that work?" she tweeted."I know Shashi Tharoor and respect him greatly. Have tweeted/written about it openly. Feel awful about what is being tweeted," she wrote.