Before Sania Mirza Shoaib Malik’s Story of First Wife

Before Sania Mirza Shoaib Malik’s Story of First Wife: When former Pakistani cricket captain Shoaib Malik posted photos from his marriage to actress Sana Javed, the sports community became aback.

The news confirmed the tidings of his split with Indian tennis player Sania Mirza, whose relatives had verified the same on social media the day before.

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However, not many people are aware that Shoaib’s first wife wasn’t Sania. In addition to being married in 2010, Sania and Shoaib also have a son named Izhaan Mirza Malik. Before reuniting with the Indian tennis star, Shoaib was said to have wed someone else and had to file for divorce.

Prior to Shoaib’s 2010 marriage to Sania, a Hyderabadi lady called Ayesha Siddiqui made headlines when she claimed to have wed Shoaib in 2002.

Ayesha, also known as Maha Siddiqui, chose to file a police complaint and provide video evidence of their wedding even though Shoaib had refuted the accusations.

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The Pakistani cricketer was then said to have negotiated a deal with Ayesha, which required him to divorce her and pay her INR 15 crore in alimony.

It’s the ‘telephonic nikah’ aspect of Shoaib and Ayesha’s marriage that was most intriguing. Shoaib himself spoke about getting a telephone nikah without ever meeting his wife in an interview with Times News Network. The player, who was only twenty years old at the time, had very few photos of Ayesha with him, despite their frequent phone conversations. Shortly thereafter, however, Shoaib was duped into marrying Ayesha—who wasn’t even the woman he believed to be in the photos.

Ayesha refused to see Shoaib and continued to make excuses, but in 2002 she informed the cricketer that she wanted to be married right away since her family was having a hard time because their relationship was in the press all the time.

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“This episode happened in 2002. Ayesha wanted us to get married. While I definitely wanted to marry her, I didn’t want to rush into it. For one, I hadn’t met her. She suggested that we could do a telephone nikah right away. There was no way I could tell my parents about a telephone nikah, because it’s not the way they wanted me to get married. I was just 20 then, and under a lot of pressure from Ayesha to get married as she was saying that her family was losing face in Hyderabad as word had got around that we were courting. And I walked out of my house one morning in June 2002, and went to my friend’s shop and called from there. I got a nikahnama, signed it, thinking the girl I was marrying was the one in the photographs,” Shoaib said in the interview.

Shoaib discovered that the female he was speaking to over the phone wasn’t the same as the one he had seen in photos somewhere in August of 2005. Ayesha also gave him the truth when he questioned her about the same thing.

Shoaib even considered sharing the photos he possessed with him, but Ayesha advised him against it because the female in them was already married. Malik thought the images would ruin her life, so she didn’t reveal them.

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