Sania Mirza Shoaib Malik

According to some Pakistani media reports, Sania and Shoaib have been in a relationship for the last six months. This had led to disruption in the Hyderabad girl’s earlier engagement to childhood friend Sohrab Mirza.

It is believed that Shoaib’s mother met Sania’s family in Hyderabad and finalized their marriage.

The wedding ceremony of both the sports stars will take place in April, while the walima reception will be hosted by Shoaib on April 16 or 17 in Lahore, The News reports.

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LAHORE: Former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik is engaged to Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and the two will soon be tying the knot, leading television channels in India and Pakistan reported on Monday.
While reports about the engagement started doing rounds since early evening, Sania’s father Imran Mirza, a former sports journalist, confirmed the news to a leading Indian channel, Aaj Tak, while speaking from Hyderabad Deccan later in the evening.

A few channels also quoted Sania’s agents as confirming the development, which took many by surprise. According to the channel, Shoaib’s mother met Sania’s parents in India and sought their consent for making Sania her daughter-in-law.

In Sialkot, Malik’s family sources confirmed the news and disclosed that date for the wedding would be decided in the first week of April. The valima reception is likely to be held in Lahore in mid-April.

Malik, serving a one-year ban imposed by the Pakistan Cricket Board, is currently in Sharjah for the Bangladesh League.

The all-rounder was also in the news for similar reasons during Pakistan cricket team’s tour to India in 2005. He was then accused of ditching another Indian girl, Ayesha Siddiqui, who coincidentally belonged to Hyderabad. The two had met through Internet and got married. Ayesha’s father had also threatened to sue Malik for jilting the girl. Malik later denied having any relations whatsoever with her.

Sania Mirza, on the other hand, had also hit the headlines last year after she called off her engagement with an Indian businessman and friend, Mohammad Sohrab Mirza.

Reliable sources told Dawn that Malik’s involvement with Sania had a hand in the break up of her first engagement. In a recent interview, Malik had said: “I desire to get married soon. You will soon get some good news but it depends on my family. I expect to get married this year.”

Asked if it would be an arranged marriage, he said: “No one can say what will happen, but it will take place with the consent of my family.”

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When news that tennis sensation Sania Mirza is all set to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik broke on Monday, it took the nation by surprise. Though Sania’s much-publicised engagement to childhood friend Mohammed Sohrab Mirza was called off in March, her relationship with Malik was kept under the wraps.

As the media went abuzz with reports of Sania and Shoaib’s engagement, which were later denied by Sania’s family, Farisa Siddiqui, the mother of Ayesha Siddiqui, the Hyderabadi girl who the cricketer was allegedly married to in 2002 was shocked.

“This is breaking news for me. I can’t believe what TV channels are airing. I will speak to Sania’s mother and get a confirmation about the marriage. I am shocked,” said Farisa from her Banjara Hills residence.

When asked about Ayesha’s reaction to Shoaib tying the knot, Farisa said, “My daughter and husband are not at home and will return later today. There is too much happening for me to comprehend.”

The family had pressed the player to give a formal divorce in February 2008, after Shoaib claimed that there was no ‘nikah’ between Ayesha and him.

According to Ayesha’s mother, she attended Sania’s engagement last July and was invited by Sohrab’s family, “I’m not associated with the Mirzas (Sania’s family) in anyway.” Farisa was not just upset, but also angry about the Sania-Shoaib alliance. “I can’t believe this girl (Sania). She has seen what happened to my daughter, it was all over the news. Despite this she got involved with this man (Shoaib). It’s sad that she’s getting married to him; it’s strange,” she said, adding that she would have a word with Sohrab’s family to find out why the engagement with Sania was called off.

Malik on Twitter

Thanks for all your support. And the news of me marrying to Sania is true. Inshallah will get married in April.

What went wrong with Ayesha…

Shoaib Malik allegedly got married to Ayesha Siddiqui through a telephone ‘nikah’ on June 3, 2002. But in a statement in Karachi on January 21, 2008 Shoaib claimed that no nikah took place. The cricketer said his marriage plans with the Hyderabadi girl ended because both families could not reach an understanding on certain issues. “Yes I had a long relationship with her and we planned to get married. But no nikah ever took place and in the end our families could not reach an understanding on various things,” Malik had said. Ayesha’s father M A Siddiqui had then said that the family would move the court if his daughter did not get divorce. Pakistani players were even feted to a grand reception by the Siddiqui family in Hyderabad when the team toured India in 2005.