"Been Divorced For Few Months Now": Sania Mirza On Split with Shoaib Malik
Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player released an official statement confirming her divorce with former husband Shoaib Malik. She said they have been divorced for “few months”. The statement was released just a day after Shoaib Malika tied knots with popular Pakistani actress Sana Javed. The statement from Sania and her team requested fans and well wishers to stay away from speculations and “respect her need of privacy”.
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The veteran Pakistani cricketer took to his social media on Saturday announcing his marriage on his Instagram handle, with caption “Alhamdulillah, And we created you in pairs”. Shoaib Malik and Sana Javed were rumoured to be dating. The rumour flared further when the cricketer shared pictures with Sana Javed on her birthday last year wishing her “Hapy Birthday Buddy”.
Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza had been living separately for a year now. The couple decided to raise their five-year-old son Izhaan Mirza Malik together. The pair got married in 2010in Hyderabad in a traditional Muslim ceremony, and later a Walima ceremony in Pakistan’s Sialkot. The pair’s marriage caught the attention of both the countries, as it was a cross-border marriage, even though the two countries were on a confrontation mode.
Earlier, amidst the speculations of the divorce between Mirza and Malik, Sania Mirza’s father Imran said that his daughter Sania Mirza has divorced her husband. He said that she opted for “Khula”, which is the Muslim woman’s right to seek divorce from her husband similar to Talaq as the right of a Muslim man to seek divorce from his wife. Imran was responding to the Shoaib Malik’s marriage.
