Former international cricketer Shoaib Akhtar has tied the knot with a 20-year-old girl from Haripur, family sources told The Pak celebrity gossip web site.
The wedding was a secret affair with only close family members attending the gathering.
According to sources the Nikkah was solemnised after Isha prayers on June 23 in Haripur, 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.
On June 7, The Express Tribune had reported that the man popularly known as the Rawalpindi Express, was set to marry a teenage girl from the district of Haripur but the cricketer and other media outlets vociferously denied these allegations.
Akhtar even rebutted these claims on his Twitter account.
