“Shoaib Malik is rejecting my daughter Ayesha as she has become fat,” said MA Siddiqui.
Threatens to move court against Pak cricket captainHYDERABAD: The Shoaib Malik-Ayesha affair is heading for a messy end with the latter’s father threatening to drag the Pakistani cricket captain to court for allegedly refusing to acknowledge their marriage on flimsy grounds.
“Shoaib Malik is rejecting my daughter Ayesha as she has become fat,” said MA Siddiqui.
A retired employee of the Saudi Arabian airlines, who lives in Hyderabad, Siddiqui said the Pakistan cricket captain was a “cheat and liar”. “I will drag him to court,” he threatened on Friday.
Siddiqui’s response came after Malik publicly denounced Ayesha alias Maha Siddiqui in Karachi last week and said he never married her. He also said there was no proof of the phone nikkah (as per shariat law) with her.
“There are more than 35 witnesses, including a former minister in the TDP government, Basheeruddin Babu Khan, to the marriage,” Siddiqui told reporters at his Road No-12 Banjara hills residence.
“What nonsense is he talking. He brought his cricket team for what he called the wedding dinner. He came to our house at least four or five times and spent several days with us. We even hosted parties for him in hotels,” said Siddiqui. He demanded a formal talaq if Malik wanted a separation.
Siddiqui said Malik was rejecting his daughter as she had become a little fat. “How can he reject her after an eight-year-long relationship,” he said.
The relationship between Ayesha and Shoaib began in Dubai hotel in 2000. “Shoaib had come to return the room keys my daughter had forgotten at a hotel,” said Siddiqui. The friendship which started then ended with a nikaah over the phone on May 2, 2002.
“There were over 35 witnesses on this side and supposedly an equal number on the other side,” he said.
Ayesha’s family was shocked when Shoaib announced that he was not married to her.
Her family was getting ready for a formal wedding in August after Ayesha settled down in Pakistan. “She is in Karachi but had informed us of their estrangement two months ago,” said a close relative of the Siddiqui family whose residence on Road No-12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, was the venue of a lavish dinner for the Pakistan and India cricket team a few years ago.
Shoaib had said in Karachi in January that he had not married Ayesha.
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