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A video of a religious scholar from Pakistan discussing on a TV show that the marriage of two actors in a drama would be considered valid in real life if they performed a nikah has sparked outrage on social media..
The clip shows a group of religious scholars on a private TV channel discussing whether nikah ceremonies between actors in TV dramas could be seen as valid marriages...
If a nikah is performed in a TV drama scene with two witnesses present, then it will be considered a valid marriage," the cleric wrote...
Nadia clarified that in TV dramas, the names of the actors, witnesses, maulvi, and signatures on the Nikahnama are all fictional..
It's just scribble, and the Nikahnama isn't even registered with the union council," Nadia said.. "If religious scholars are saying that staged nikah in TV dramas are considered real marriages, then they are giving a clean chit to promoting obscenity," the actor said.. Many social media users openly criticized the cleric's statement, with some humorously congratulating actors Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan after their fictional nikah scene in a drama...
