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Parents-To-Be Shoaib-Sania At Medina Pilgrimage

IANS, 14 May, 2018 12:50 PM
  • Parents-To-Be Shoaib-Sania At Medina Pilgrimage
Sania Mirza has set off with her family to Medina in Saudi Arabia on a holy pilgrimage.
 
The Indian tennis icon, who is pregnant with her first child, is visiting the Gulf nation with her father Imran, mother Nasima and sister Anam.
 
Sania, who married Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik in 2010, is expecting her first child in October.
 
After spending some time with her family at the holy shrine of Medina, Indian tennis starwas joined by husband Shoaib Malik for the pilgrimage.
 
 
 
 
The Indian tennis icon, who is pregnant with her first child, had first visited the holy shrine with her father Imran, mother Nasima and sister Anam on Friday last.
 
Earlier, the 31-year-old had spoken about naming her child 'Mirza Malik'.
 
'Today, I will tell you a secret. My husband and I have spoken about it and we have decided that whenever we have a child, the child will have Mirza Malik as a surname and not just Malik. So that's where we stand as a family including my husband. He actually wants a daughter,' Sania said during a panel discussion on 'Gender Bias' at the 'Goa Fest 2018'.

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