Zaira Wasim announces nikah in private Instagram post

Former child actress Zaira Wasim announced her marriage on Friday by sharing two photographs from her nikaah ceremony on Instagram, marking her first personal social media update since she left the film industry in 2019. The images show her signing the nikaah nama, the Islamic marriage contract, and a second frame of the couple standing with their backs to the camera beneath a moonlit sky. She captioned the post "Qubool hai x3."

In the signing photograph Wasim’s hand is decorated with mehendi and an emerald ring, while in the second image she wears a deep red dupatta embroidered with gold and her husband is seen in a cream sherwani with a matching stole. She did not identify her partner or show his face, consistent with her long-standing practice of keeping her private life out of the public eye.

Wasim rose to national prominence as a teenager for her screen work. She played the younger version of wrestler Geeta Phogat in the 2016 sports drama Dangal and received the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. She later appeared in Secret Superstar and The Sky Is Pink. In 2019 she announced she was quitting acting, saying the profession conflicted with her religious...