Man wants to get married
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
By Bureau report
PESHAWAR: Hashmat Ali must have exhausted all options to persuade his father to get him married before reaching the Peshawar Press Club holding a banner Tuesday to publicly voice his grievance.
The banner carried an appeal by him in Urdu, complaining that his father Shahzad Gul despite being a wealthy man was refusing to arrange his marriage. “My younger brothers have got married even though they were jobless. I am the oldest and am employed but my father has yet to arrange me marriage,” read the appeal.
According to Hashmat Ali, he was a chowkidar at the girls’ hostel at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar and was getting Rs5,000 monthly salary. The girls’ hostel apparently was the nursing hostel at the biggest public hospital in the NWFP. Imagine being a guard at a hostel full of young girls and still unable to find a wife.
Talking to reporters, Hashmat Ali in all seriousness said there was no particular reason for his father not to agree to his marriage. Unlike his unemployed brothers, he said he had a regular job and would be able to share the expenses of his household once he got married.
One would have to see whether Hashmat Ali’s public appeal would move his father, who is a resident of Peshawar Saddar, to find him a wife or make him so angry that he may decide to keep his desperate son a bachelor all his life.
