Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza Controversy

Shoaib Malik has been under the lime light for quite some time now. His engagement to Sania Mirza has raised more questions than answers. GEO being one of our leading national news channels which claims to be the best among all the channels has not left a drop of respect or dignity for the nation by not only humiliating our own cricket player but making it evident to the world that Pakistanis are basically attention seekers and this nation jus CANNOT stop getting the maximum attention, regardless of if its terrorism or anything else. We have all the Hot Topics of the news ALWAYS!! Thanks to our media.
Shoaib Malik’s Controversy as being one of the headlines of every news channel, Shoaib Malik and Indian tennis player Sania Mirza has been a little too hard to digest for Pakistanis and Indians. Pak-Indo relationship haven’t been so smooth ever since partition. We had our first war in 1947. “the news of me marrying to sania is true” shoaib malik said on his twitter page according to the newspaper dawn, “inshallah will get married in April”. According to Sania Mirza she wants to plan her wedding privately without media intruding, she says she has been in the media glare for a very long time and would like to plan this occasion privately and would appreciate if people could just mind their business for a little while. Her father Imran Mirza confirmed by saying that they plan on getting married in Dubai. On the other side of the story, Ayesha Siddique who claims to be Shoaib Malik’s wife has been coming on national television and threatening Shoaib Malik. According to her Shoaib Malik and Ayesha Siddique had reportedly developed friendship on the internet and Siddiqui’s father had even threatened to take Malik to court. Malik has denied any serious relationship with Siddique. The dashing cricketer was also linked with Indian actress Siali Bhagat, and there were reports of the two meeting confidentially in 2008. This isn’t the first time that Pakistani cricketer has married a high profile Indian celebrity, former cricketer Mohsin Khan married Reena Roy, which later led to a separation.
I personally think in order for Pakistan to make progress as a nation it needs to have a low profile, a low key. The media needs to play its role as being a source of knowledge which is sensible and justified not exploiting people’s personal life on national television. We don’t know what the real story is, but at the end of the day what matters is we should respect our cricketers or any celebrity figure for that matter, because these people are an asset to the nation they represent our country, and by humiliating them we are not only humiliating ourselves but the entire nation.