LAHORE: The past has come to haunt former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik soon after news about his engagement with Indian tennis star Sania Mirza. MA Siddiqui, father of Ayesha Siddiqui who was married to Shoiab via a telephonic nikah (marriage) in June 2002, has slammed the cricketer saying that Shoiab is still married to his daughter and that Sania would be his second wife not the first. MA Siddiqui has said he will take legal recourse and take Shoaib o court as he has wronged the Siddiqui family. “As per law, Ayesha will be the first wife and Sania will be second. I want divorce for my daughter. I will seek legal recourse. I will sue Shoiab because he has wronged us,” Siddiqui was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Sania is surely on cloud nine, but the latest developments have come as a shocker for Shoaib’s ‘ex-wife’ Ayesha. The family is said to be in a state of shock and disbelief over the reports of Shoaib-Sania wedlock. Siddiqui, who has worked for the Saudi Airlines, claimed in February 2008 that Shoaib had married his daughter on June 3, 2002, through a telephone after a prolonged love affair on the Internet. But, the cricketer said he was only engaged to her and the marriage was called off because of problems between the families. But there is more to this affair.
Sources said Ayesha met Shoaib in a Dubai restaurant in 2001 along with her friend Maha. While Ayesha is a little plump, Maha was pretty and Shoaib fell for her. “On returning to Hyderabad, Ayesha posing as Maha started chatting with Shoaib,” sources said. Ayesha apparently fell in love with the cricketer and convinced her parents to contact his parents and arrange for a telephonic nikah. In 2005, when the Pakistan cricket team was in Hyderabad, the Siddiquis hosted a grand reception for them. “Shoaib became suspicious when he expressed his desire to meet Ayesha and her parents said she was out of town,” sources said.
Ayesha who was working as a school teacher in Dubai then reportedly sent her actual photograph to Shoaib. This apparently made the player snap all ties with her. He said the Siddiquis had cheated him. At a press conference in Lahore in January 2008, Shoaib’s brother-in-law Imran Malik said: “He wanted to marry Ayesha. But the photos Siddiqui showed him were not of his real daughter. They tried to commit fraud.” Siddiqui threatened to move the court and said Shoaib could not marry another girl without divorcing Ayesha. “But, with Shoaib threatening to press cheating charges against them, Ayesha’s family dropped the idea,” sources added.
Sania is surely on cloud nine, but the latest developments have come as a shocker for Shoaib’s ‘ex-wife’ Ayesha. The family is said to be in a state of shock and disbelief over the reports of Shoaib-Sania wedlock. Siddiqui, who has worked for the Saudi Airlines, claimed in February 2008 that Shoaib had married his daughter on June 3, 2002, through a telephone after a prolonged love affair on the Internet. But, the cricketer said he was only engaged to her and the marriage was called off because of problems between the families. But there is more to this affair.Sources said Ayesha met Shoaib in a Dubai restaurant in 2001 along with her friend Maha. While Ayesha is a little plump, Maha was pretty and Shoaib fell for her. “On returning to Hyderabad, Ayesha posing as Maha started chatting with Shoaib,” sources said. Ayesha apparently fell in love with the cricketer and convinced her parents to contact his parents and arrange for a telephonic nikah. In 2005, when the Pakistan cricket team was in Hyderabad, the Siddiquis hosted a grand reception for them. “Shoaib became suspicious when he expressed his desire to meet Ayesha and her parents said she was out of town,” sources said.
Ayesha who was working as a school teacher in Dubai then reportedly sent her actual photograph to Shoaib. This apparently made the player snap all ties with her. He said the Siddiquis had cheated him. At a press conference in Lahore in January 2008, Shoaib’s brother-in-law Imran Malik said: “He wanted to marry Ayesha. But the photos Siddiqui showed him were not of his real daughter. They tried to commit fraud.” Siddiqui threatened to move the court and said Shoaib could not marry another girl without divorcing Ayesha. “But, with Shoaib threatening to press cheating charges against them, Ayesha’s family dropped the idea,” sources added.
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