Malala Yousafzai Husband: Who is Asser Malik?

Asser Malik is the husband of Malala Yousafzai a Pakistani female education activist and Nobel laureate.

Malik and Yousafzai met in the summer of 2018 at the University of Oxford, where he was visiting friends. The couple got married on 9 November 2021, in Birmingham despite claiming on numerous occasions that she didn’t believe marriage was right for her.

“‘I do not want to get married or at least not until I’m 35.’ I heard myself blurt out those words reactionary, half-consciously  many times over the last few years when asked about relationships,” she wrote in a personal essay.

She revealed in the essay that Malik showed her  how a relationship would coexist with her desire to “remain true to her values of equality, fairness and integrity.”

 

According to his LinkedIn page, Malik Asser currently works for the Pakistan Cricket Board, the country’s regulating body for the sport, which supervises and organises matches for the country’s national team. He became their High Performance General Manager in May 2020.

According to ESPN, Malik was a managing director for a player-management firm prior to his current job. He is also a co-founder of Pakistan’s amateur cricket competition Last Man Stands.