 Shoaib Malik has finally admitted that he was indeed married to Ayesha, but he
also said that he cheated into the marriage by Ayesha. Malik, who is in Hyderabad,
for his own marriage with Sania Mirza, released a press statement that
spoke about how he was cheated into marrying Ayesha when he thought that Ayesha
was someone else.
Malik said that Ayesha had first started calling him when he was in Sharjah
in 2001 but he also added that she never met him. He said that every time Malik
brought about the topic of meeting her, she would only send him a bunch of photographs
and evade the topic of meeting him. Shoaib Malik goes on to add that
till date, he had only met the Ayesha we all know today, but has never met the
lady in the photographs.
Malik also asked the family of Ayesha where she was, but they said that because
she had put on a lot of weight, there was no way she could meet him till she
shed that extra weight! Then, Ayesha, without having met Malik, wanted to get
married to the former Pakistan captain. Malik added that given that he
was only 20 at that stage, he felt very pressured by Ayesha, who said that the
people had begun to talk about the relationship and the only thing they could
do is to get married.
Malik also said that Ayesha wanted to get a telephone nikah done, which the
former captain agreed to do. Even after that, Malik never met Ayesha for some
time. Even when Malik went to Hyderabad to play a match, there was a function
hosted by the family of Ayesha, but according to Malik, Ayesha was not there
at the function and the reason cited by her family was the same; she had put
on a lot of weight and did not want to meet Malik till she reduced!
Thinking that he had married the girl in the photos, Malik even went on to
say that he was happy that he had played well in a game in the city of his wife.
Malik has then said in his press release is that it was only by accident that
he got the truth. It happened in August 2005. Malik's brother-in-law got a photograph
of a teacher in Saudi Arabia, who was apparently telling everyone that she was
married to Malik. When Malik looked at the pictures, he was to see that the
pictures were that of Maha Apa, the cousin sister of Ayesha. When confronted,
Ayesha Siddiqui said that she was sorry about the incident and but now,
after the marriage of Malik with Mirza has become public, the Ayesha family
has again started harassing Malik for a divorce.
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