Pakistani actress and television host Kiran Khan has tied the knot with businessman and philanthropist Mirza Ishtiaq Baig, who was previously married to legendary singer Nazia Hassan. The couple’s nikah took place in Makkah on September 17, 2026, during what Kiran Khan described as a combined Umrah and wedding trip.
Kiran Khan, known to audiences for her morning-show hosting and acting roles, shared the news herself on social media rather than leaving it to speculation. “Ya Allah, accept our Umrah, bless our Nikkah, and make us a source of peace and goodness for each other,” she wrote, calling the occasion a combination of “two biggest blessings together — First Umrah + Nikkah in Makkah,” according to ARY News.
“Ya Allah, accept our Umrah, bless our Nikkah, and make us a source of peace and goodness for each other.”
Ishtiaq Baig is best known in Pakistan for founding Make-A-Wish Foundation Pakistan, a charity that works to fulfil the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses. He was married to pop icon Nazia Hassan from 1995 until their divorce roughly three years later, a marriage that ended not long before Hassan’s death in 2000. This marks his third marriage, with Kiran Khan’s social media announcement noting it as her second as well, following an earlier marriage from which she has an adult son.
News of the wedding spread quickly across Pakistani entertainment media on September 17 and 18, with outlets including Daily Pakistan and Pakistan Observer confirming the same Makkah nikah ceremony. Fellow celebrities including Nida Yasir and Fahima Awan were among those who publicly congratulated the couple once the news broke.
The pairing has drawn considerable chatter online, in part because of Baig’s association with Nazia Hassan, whose songs remain a defining part of Pakistani pop music history more than two decades after her passing. Reaction on social media has been a mix of well-wishes for Kiran Khan and curiosity about how the new marriage connects two very different eras of Pakistani celebrity culture.
Our Opinion
Celebrity marriages usually generate a news cycle and fade within a week, but this one has stuck around a little longer because of the Nazia Hassan connection — a reminder of how enduring her legacy still is in Pakistani pop culture, decades after her death; that said, the coverage would serve readers better if it stayed focused on the two people actually getting married rather than re-litigating a decades-old divorce every time Baig’s name resurfaces, since neither party in this new marriage had any part in that earlier chapter.
