Punjab News One: April 2010

Monday, April 5, 2010

Will Sania Mirza be able to marry Shoaib on April 15?

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza's plans to wed Pakistani cricketer
Shoaib Malik has run into deuce with neither of the doubles partners
Sania or Shoaib being able to score a winning point.

The big question being asked is will Sania be able to get married to
Shoaib on April 15 with all the police cases slapped on the Pakistani
cricketer and the Hyderabadi resident Ayesha Maha Siddiqui, who claims
to the first wife of Shoaib, occupying the `centre court'.

But there are some unanswered questions in the drama. Here are 10
crucial questions:

1. If Shoaib claims that he was cheated as Ayesha had sent him
photographs of some other girl, why is the Pakistani cricketer not
releasing the pictures? Is he afraid that Ayesha my release more
damaging pictures of their wedding?

2. Shoaib says that the marriage was not valid as he had signed
'nikahnama' believing that he was marrying the girl whose photographs
were sent to him by Ayesha but who turned out to be someone else.
Again where are the photographs? And why did he stay with Ayesha in a
hotel as husband and wife.

3. In one of the matches in played in Hyderabad, Shoaib was on record
claiming that he was happy to have scored a century in his `wife's
city'. So, was he already married to Ayesha then even without having
met her?

4. Shoaib says neither he nor his brother-in-law could ever meet
Ayesha during their visits to Hyderabad. But there are records to
prove that Ayesha and Shoaib had checked into a hotel as wife and
husband. What is his take on this? Was he just having a fling? It has
now emerged that former Indian cricket captain and presently Congress
party MP Mohd Azaruddin had spotted the couple in the hotel.

5. Why is Shoaib not ready to offer a divorce to Ayesha in public? Is
there more to the story if he offers a divorce and an apology?
Shoaib's stand is that no 'nikah' (marriage) took place with Ayesha
and hence there was no need for him to divorce her before marrying
Sania. Then what about the hotel stay and his statement before the TV
of his `wife's city'.