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Kashif, a 21-year-old boy from Sialkot married Helena Abrams, 41, a woman from the United States of America. This unique wedding has taken over the social and electronic media of Pakistan for the last few days.
Kashif has tied the knot after Helena embraced Islam. She has changed her name to Maria Helena Abrams. The two met on Instagram and fell in love. While Kashif is a student of B.com from Raipur village, Maria Helena is a Reiki master, dog trainer, and driver from California.
The Nikka was a close ceremony organized at a local hotel attended by close friends and family members of Kashif. Talking to Press Kashif informed that he and Helena came across on Instagram. On the other hand, Helena while talking to media said, “Kashif is wonderful. I love him. He makes me happy.”
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“I don’t know whether we’ll live in Pakistan or America and it doesn’t matter as long as we’re together.”
The Twitter was soon stormed with mixed reactions from the people. Some chose to felicitate the couple on their marriage while others trolled the couple on social media. The troll, however, commented that boy looked sad in the picture as he did not expect Helena would actually come to marry him.
41 year old American woman has travelled all the way to meet the love of her life, a 21 year old boy from Sialkot
Helena fell in #Love with Kashif on the social media & decided to tie the knot with the young man. She will also embrace #Islam before beginning her marital life.❤️
— Arslan Chaudhry (@iamArslan10) November 15, 2018
The marriage of Kashif and Helena dimmed the glitzy wedding of Bollywood couple Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh in Pakistan since people were more amazed at the love story of a Sialkot-based youngster, Kashif.
https://twitter.com/QueenAfsha/status/1063412394062434304
Ranbir – Deepika who..?
This Couple has taken Social Media By Storm when the Story got out that 41 Years Old Helena from America And 21 year old Kashif from Sialkot Found each Other on Instagram and Got Married in 10 Short months.
(We wish them the best) pic.twitter.com/dmcDrTyMdn— 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐚 (@sariyarana) November 17, 2018
People hope the love between the couple is genuine and Kashif will fulfil his responsibilities in this union. The two have been in contact for 10 months after which Helena travelled from the US to Pakistan to marry Kashif.
So Kasif Weds Helena, hmmm.. I hope their love is true and its not Kashif's some immaturity.#KashifwedsHelena #Bestwishes
— Wajid Ahmed (@WajidAhmedWajid) November 16, 2018
A commentator even appreciated Kashif for convincing Helena to embrace Islam. According to him, Kashif showed her the videos of renowned scholar Zakir Naik.