Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has tied the knot with a 20-year old girl from Haripur in the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province.
The wedding was a secret affair with only close family members attending the gathering.
According to family sources the Nikkah was solemnised after Isha prayers on June 23 in Mohalla Ramzani, and was attended by close family members.
Sources said Shoaib Akhtar’s family met Mushtaq Khan, a businessman from Haripur while on Hajj last year and asked Khan’s wife for help in finding a suitable match for the 39-year-old retired cricketer.
“There were not more than ten people,” disclosed a close relative of Mushtaq, who’s wife helped make the match.
Reportedly, Akhtar’s wife Rubab was born in 1994 and has little interest in cricket. She appeared in intermediate exams conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Abbottabad last month.
Initially Akhtar had denied reports that he was getting married to a girl chosen by his parents.
A source close to Akhtar, 38, confirmed to PTI that the fast bowler and his family had visited the girl’s residence on June 12 where both families agreed on the wedding date.
Is this in the news only because of 18 year age gap? Almost a generational gap..