Austrian Ambassador in Pakistan Converts to Islam, ties knot with PTV anchor Sadia Afzaal
Islamabad: Austrian Ambassador in Pakistan Axel Wech has converted to Islam and tied knot to Sadia Afzaal, famous anchor of Pakistan’s state television programme ‘News Night’, a Facebook page said on Thursday.
Pakistan Media Watch citing sources said that the Austrian Ambassador has tied the knot with Sadia Afzaal and his decision to convert to Islam came just before their marriage.
The sources said that the couple was hiding details regarding their ‘Nikkah’ ceremony and the conversion.
Sadia Afzaal is based in Islamabad. She has worked as a reporter as well she has covered Foreign Office, Parliament and done a number of interviews with the heads of state including President Asif Ali Zardari, President Pervez Musharraf, PM Yousaf Raza Gillani, PM Shaukat Aziz.
She has been doing outdoor coverage too. She was the first female anchor to cover Swat operation with ISPR. She also covered incidents like Earthquake 2005, Floods 2010 and President Obama election 2008 with collaboration of Voice of America.
It is the second marriage of Sadia Afzaal as she was earlier known as Sadia Zafar. He also had a son from her first husband.
Meanwhile, according to The News Tribe correspondent from Islamabad, the Austrian embassy in the capital has not officially denied the report.
It is to be mentioned here that certain sectors of the society believe that the foreigners tie knot with the locals in order to easily move across the country and gather sensitive information.
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Famous French singer embraces Islam, wears hijab
Diam’s in an exclusive TV interview with French TV station TF1
Famous
French singer Diam’s has announced in a newly-published autobiography
that she has embraced Islam and decided to wear hijab.
The book tells about Diam’s life, hardships, conversion to Islam and choosing to wear hijab.
“In the height of success I suffered from a major depression and visited different psychologists, but none of them could help me,” she says in her book.
Diam’s, whose real name is Melanie Georgiades, said she found that the way out of depression was in saying prayers and reading the Qur’an.
The 32-year-old artist said she embraced Islam during a visit to the Mauritius Island in 2008 when she also decided to wear hijab and open a center to support orphans.
Diam’s who recently made her first television appearance wearing hijab said Islam was introduced to her by coincidence, when she saw a Muslim friend praying.
In an exclusive TV interview with French TV station TF1, she said her “conversion to Islam was the result of a personal conviction, after understanding the religion and reading the Holy Quran.”
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