Yasin Malik ties knot with Pakistani girl

Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik on Sunday tied the knot with Britain-born Pakistani girl Mushaal Mullick in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, marking the third cross-border high-profile marriage.

The 40-year-old Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman, who met Mullick two years ago, entered into the wedlock at the ‘nikkah´ ceremony attended by celebrities and politicans, Geo TV reported.

Mullick, a post graduate from the London School of Economics and an artist, is the daughter of Rehana Hussain, chief of the Muslim League (women’s wing).

Her father, late MA Hussain Malik, was an internationally renowned Pakistani economist.

The was the third high-profile cross-border wedding after Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who married a US citizen of Kashmiri origin, and Sajjad Ghani Lone, who wed the daughter of JKLF leader Amanullah Khan from Jammu and Kashmir.