Waseem Abbas confirms divorce from Saba Hameed

Waseem Abbas said they remained legally married for 29 years despite living separately for the last 14.

Veteran Pakistani actor Waseem Abbas has publicly confirmed that he and actress Saba Hameed have officially divorced after 29 years of marriage, revealing in a candid interview that the two had actually been living separately for 14 years before the divorce was finalised.
The confirmation puts an end to years of speculation about the couple’s relationship status. Waseem said that while they had been married for 29 years on paper, they had not been living together for the last 14 of those years. Despite the long separation, the two continued to maintain a civil and professional relationship, occasionally working together on projects and meeting for dinners as friends. He said both could still work together if the right project came along and that there were no hard feelings on either side.
Waseem’s tone throughout the interview was notably matter-of-fact. He said he was not hurt by the divorce because there were no feelings involved by the time it was formalised. He also noted that the two had no children together, which he suggested made the separation more straightforward than it might otherwise have been. What he said he valued above all else was mutual respect, and he credited the absence of animosity between them as a reflection of that. “We never bad mouth each other or talk ill of each other,” he said.
When asked whether he considered the marriage a mistake, Waseem’s response was carefully measured. He said he did not classify it as a mistake outright, but acknowledged that in hindsight, it perhaps was. The admission was honest rather than bitter, delivered with the kind of reflective distance that only time and perspective can provide.
Waseem Abbas and Saba Hameed were one of Pakistan’s most recognised on-screen couples, having appeared together in numerous acclaimed dramas over the course of their careers. Their professional chemistry was well regarded by audiences and directors alike, and the news of their divorce, though long rumoured, has still prompted a significant reaction from fans who had followed their journey both on and off screen over the decades.
For Waseem, the interview appears to represent a desire to set the record straight on his own terms, after years of public curiosity about the state of his marriage. He did so with a directness and lack of drama that characterised the entire account, presenting the end of a 29-year marriage not as a tragedy but simply as a chapter that had quietly closed many years before it was officially acknowledged.