15 prominent leaders brokered deal

As many as 15 prominent leaders of the Muslim community and politicians brokered the compromise deal between Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and his alleged first wife, Ms Ayesha Siddiqui

1. The minister for minorities welfare, Mr M. Ahmadullah, the APCC general secretary
2. Mr Abid Rasool Khan, a family friend of the Siddiquis, at whose residence the negotiations were held
3. Dr Shams Babar
4. prominent community leader, Mr Imran Qadri, played a key role.
   Mr Ahmadullah said he got personally involved as the dispute was turning murkier by the day with allegations and counter-allegations bringing disrepute to the Muslim community.
5. Mr Mohammad Shafi, uncle of Sania Mirza, who was also part of the negotiations, said, “No one has won and no one has lost in this case.
6. Shoaib Malik has been maintaining that he was cheated by Ayesha and she was not the person with whom he had nikah over the telephone.

They said they had been working quietly for four days and a deal was struck around midnight on Tuesday. Though the efforts to arrive at a compromise began on Saturday, they gained momentum only after the arrival of Shoaib’s brother-in-law, Mr Imran Zafar, on Tuesday evening.

Community leader Mr Imran Qadri said there was “too much ugliness in the past two months, which has been affecting both the countries.

It’s true that there was a nikah, whether through telephone or anything else, and he needs to agree to the divorce if he wants to marry Sania. He agreed and signed the divorce papers that were sent to Dr Shams Babar’s residence,” said Mr Ahmadullah.

“The community elders especially were upset at the muckraking. There was a lot of pressure from the community on both families not to let things go out of hand.

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Vaastu-sceptic retreats on Rs 5cr bet

Miya bibi razi to kya karega qazi, is a popular Urdu saying in the Indian sub-continent. But in the case of Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and Pakistani ace cricketer Shoaib Malik, it’s the qazi, who is going to hog all the limelight.


POLICE PATT`IE HO GAYEE MAA
(A traditional Hyderabadi song).

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A Hyderabad-based rationalist faces an arrest warrant from a Kangeyam court in western Tamil Nadu for allegedly going back on his promise of Rs 5-crore reward to a vaastu consultant there for proving that vaastu is effective and scientific.

When the case comes up on Thursday (April 8), the vaastu expert, Mr M. Palanisamy, hopes to see the police get Mr T. V. Rao of the Vaasthu Nija Nirtharana Vedika Committee of Hyderabad to the court for going back on his promise of reward made before the media in Coimbatore five years ago.

Mr Rao says that the reward was not announced by his Vedika but only by a US-based rationalist-non believer group, ‘James Randi Educational Foun-dation’, as could be seen on its website.

On the JREF site, www.randi.org, founder James Randi had promised long ago a reward of a million dollars “to anyone who can demonstrate any psychic, supernatural or paranormal ability under satisfactory observing conditions”. The site also warns that several applicants “have suffered great personal embarrassment after failing these tests.”

“Rao is speaking of this American organisation only now after I staked a claim for the reward. I have been fighting my case for a long time and only when he started dodging my calls and failed to respond to my vaastu papers that I had sent, did I move the court for justice,” the expert said.

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