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Shehryar Aziz 26 Years, Kashmiri Groom

Shehryar is a cybersecurity analyst working remotely for a Singapore-based firm — his entire career has been self-built through certifications, GitHub contributions, and competitive hacking on platforms like HackTheBox, where he currently holds a rank in the top 500 globally. He never completed a formal CS degree (he dropped out of a Rawalpindi university in second year to pursue certifications full time) but now earns more than most of his degree-holding peers. He is aware this sounds impressive on paper and deliberately does not lead with it in conversation. He would rather be known for his dry wit, his obsessive chai-brewing rituals, and his habit of reading one book a week. He is from Mirpur AJK, visits his family monthly, and sends a fixed portion of his income home every month regardless of expenses. Privately devout, he prays, fasts, and reads Quran regularly but considers faith a personal matter and not a performance.

Noman Haider 32 Years, Malik Groom

Noman is a documentary filmmaker and visual storyteller who has spent the last eight years travelling across Pakistan capturing stories of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. He has produced three short documentaries screened at regional film festivals and is currently working on a feature-length project about vanishing crafts in southern Punjab. He holds a degree in Mass Communication from Punjab University and is largely self-taught in cinematography. Despite his creative nomadic career, he is deeply rooted — he visits his parents in Gujrat every month without fail, sends money home consistently, and still prays Fajr in congregation at the local mosque whenever he is in town. He describes himself as someone who is ‘quietly intense’ — he does not make noise about his ambitions but works toward them with singular focus. He cooks well, loves long drives on empty roads, and believes that the most honest conversations happen over chai at roadside dhabas rather than fancy restaurants.

Imran Shahzad 37 Years, Warraich Groom

Imran is a retired army captain (served 12 years, left as Captain due to a knee injury sustained during a training exercise) who now runs a successful security consultancy firm in Lahore. He lost his wife to breast cancer four years ago; they had two children together — a daughter aged 11 and a son aged 8. He has been raising them with the help of his mother and two sisters and describes the last four years as the hardest and most clarifying of his life. He is not looking for someone to replace their mother, he is honest about that with anyone he speaks to but he believes his children deserve a complete family again, and he deserves companionship and partnership. He is structured, disciplined, and deeply protective, but those who know him well describe him as the kind of man who cries at his daughter’s school play and stays up all night when either child is unwell. He is financially very stable, owns his home, and has set up education funds for both children. He still exercises daily, though the knee limits him to cycling and swimming.

Shahzaib Rafiq Sial 27 Years, Sial Groom

Shahzaib is an architectural designer and urban planner who graduated from NCA Lahore and now works with a Lahore-based architecture firm on civic and educational building projects. He is the kind of person who cannot walk through a city without noticing what is broken and imagining what it could be — the cracked footpath that could be a planted walkway, the abandoned building that could be a community library. He is idealistic about cities in a practical way, not a dreamy one. He is from Jhang but has fully adapted to Lahore’s rhythms while maintaining deep roots. His mother still sends him homemade achaar with every visiting relative. He is slim, spectacled, and almost always has a sketchbook within reach. He is regular in his prayers and takes Ramadan seriously. He does not drink, smoke, or attend mixed gatherings he considers inappropriate, but he does not impose these standards on others and is socially at ease in most settings.