60-year-old Shakeel Abbasi who belongs to Nawab family of Bahawalpur, a grand child of Nawab of Bahalpur, proposed to Pakistani actress Alizeh Shah.
Shakeel Abbasi claimed he never married as he could not find a woman of his choice to get married. But after watching the actress Alizeh Shah on TV Serial, he fell for her, he added.
When asked about never getting married, he told it is his fate and that he never found a girl of his choice and never married.
On being asked about the age difference, Shakeel said, I just fell in love with her at first sight after watch her on tv and that he has not control on his heart feelings as he has huge crush on the actress.
Shakeel Abbasi offered a whopping 50 KG Gold (5000 tolas of gold) if the actress agrees to marry
Shakeel Abbasi said, until now he never liked any girl or woman to whom he can marry, but Alizeh Shah is the first girl whom he likes so much and want to make her, his wife.
Although Shakeel Abbasi does’t seem to be a descent of Nawab family, but he had claimed he belong to Nawab family. The Abbasi tribe from whom the ruling family of Bahawalpur belong, claim descent from the Abbasid Caliphs. The tribe then came to Bahawalpur in the middle of the 17th century.
Bahawalpur state was founded in 1727 AD by Nawab Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi. On 22 February 1833, Abbasi III entered into subsidiary alliance with the British, by which Bahawalpur was admitted as a princely state of British India.
When India became independent of British rule in 1947 and partitioned into two states, India and Pakistan, Bahawalpur joined the Dominion of Pakistan.
Bahawalpur remained an autonomous entity till 14 October 1955 when it was merged with the province of West Pakistan.