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| Pak needs to keep off Shoaib-Ayesha rift | | | Islamabad seem to be impatient in grabbing any opportunity for needling India.Even if the matter pertains to engagement,wedding or miscarriage Pakistan does not miss any chance for demonstrating what could conveniently be called anti-India.The latest incident is the controversy behind the plan of former Pakistan cricket captain,Shoaib Malik,of marrying an Indian tennis star Sania Mirza.Sania's plan for accepting Shoaib as her husband has already kicked up breezy turmoil in some parts of the country where Sania's effigies were torched.Others criticised her for having selected a Pakistani when there was no dearth of good boys in India.The affair would have gone unnoticed had not one Ayesha Siddiqui claimed that she was already married to Malik.Malik and his relatives first of all denied the allegation but when the TV clippings and other reports were circulated by Ayesha's family Malik had to be on the defensive by claiming that the Nikah was
performed
on telephone.He even went to the extent of telling that the two had never lived together because of professional compulsions.This led to the Islamic scholars saying that a Nikah Nama on telephone was not an acceptable form of formalising the wedding ceremony as per the demand of the religion.What has made matters difficult for Malik is the case registered by Ayesha in the police charging Shoaib with harrassment and cheating while claiming that she is the wife of the former Pakistani cricket captain.The police have begun investigations and this very development had forced Malik's family members and other close relations to defer their visit to Hyderabad where the wedding with Sania Mirza was to be solemnised.Apparently the entire episode between Malik and Ayesha has taken legal and criminal dimensions warranting that the issue be settled between the two families through the police agencies and the court.While the normal process was on Pakistan issued a statement that it "will extend all possible assistance to Shoaib Malik who has been slapped with charges of harrassment and cheating."Islamabad has asked the Pak high commissioner in New Delhi to be in touch with the concerned Indian autorities so that the foreign office in Islamabad had complete details of the First Information Report lodged by Ayesha against Malik in the police station.The Sania-Malik issue does not seem to have any transborder ramifications as during the last 60 years boys and girls belonging to Pakistan have married girls and boys in India and the vice versa.There has been no political or diplomatic row.And had Mailk not been blamed for cheating and harrassment by an Indian girl his proposed marriage would have been completed without wrangles.No doubt both Malik and Sania are high profile sports persons and media attention was,therefore,necessary.But the added media attention has been the result of Ayesha's allegations.The
matter should have been left to the police and the courts to decide.Here there was no need for Islamabad to announce its readiness to assist Malik in the sordid drama.It was not the case of detention of political leaders from Pakistan in India which would have warranted Islamabad's intervention.It was not a political issue of the dimensions of the death sentence having been awarded to Afzal Guru.It was not an issue pertaining to hijacking of any Pakistani aircraft by the Indian agents.In the interest of better India-Pakistan relations Islamabad need to show patience and political maturity because Malik's proposed wedding to Sania Mirza is not interference in the internal matters of Pakistan.(eom)
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