US-Pakistani Couple Finds Love in Arranged Marriage

The families of Wajahat Ahmed and Tayaba Sharif are from Pakistan, but Tayaba is a young woman reared in a traditional home in Saudi Arabia. In 1997, Wajahat came to Arizona from Karachi, Pakistan, to study electrical engineering at Arizona State University. In the fall of 2002, he traveled to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during the holy month of Ramadan for a small pilgrimage. He had also decided it was time to find a wife. He didn’t know that his older brother was already making arrangements within the family…