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01-19-2008, 12:10 AM
Britney Spears moving to Pakistan?
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a6ae38db-48fc-4df4-a84b-71cc5fa00a70&&Headline=Britney+Spears+moving+to+P akistan%3f
What is it about Pakistani men that glamorous women from the West
find so irresistible? The latest rumour of pop singer Britney Spears
possibly converting to Islam and moving to Pakistan with her
companion Adnan Ghalib has set off a debate among women in the
country.
The grapevine is abuzz with twice-divorced singer Spear's romance
with little known Ghalib, a man of Pakistani origin. Spears,
according to Britain's Sun newspaper, wanted to fake her death and
embrace Islam and move to Pakistan and start a new life!
Ghalib, 35, who works for a photo agency, is being described as "a
gold digger" whom the "lonely" and "vulnerable" Spears cannot do
without.
According to media reports, Ghalib's respectable Sunni Muslim family
in Birmingham is so horrified by his antics that they have disowned
him.
"His parents Ghalib and Saghra are devastated. This week his dad gave
him an ultimatum, 'Give up Britney, or you are dead to me,' which
Adnan ignored," a friend of Ghalib was quoted as saying.
But much before Spears, there was Jemima Khan, the glamorous daughter
of a millionaire who married the much older cricketer Imran Khan
against her family's wishes and moved to Pakistan. Their marriage did
not last and she was back in London with her two sons in less than a
decade.
The romance of Diana, the Princess of Wales, who reportedly found
her "Mr Wonderful" in a Pakistani cardiologist in London, is another
case in point.
Hasnat Khan decided not to marry his love because of the great
cultural divide. Unfortunately, his marriage to a woman of Afghan
royalty did not last reportedly because of his Diana connection.
Sehr Naqvi, a homemaker, said: "I think Pakistani men are more
committed and, of course, the Pathan genes hold them in good stead.
Britney Spears is hardly a good example - well, she could fall for
anyone - but we have had Jemima and Diana too falling for Pakistani
men."
With the news of Hasnat Khan breaking his silence over his "affair"
with Diana, the topic is hot at dinner tables.
"May be he didn't speak about Diana because his own marriage was not
working out. We learnt that he has separated from his wife of 18
months just yesterday. But he seems still so much in love with
Diana," Naqvi said.
Like Naqvi, many feel Diana and Jemima were good news for Pakistan,
but they can do without Spears. "I can imagine how the orthodox
amongst us would react. I can almost see a fatwa against Spears
coming," said Shazia, Naqvi's 22-year-old daghter.
Shahida Haq, another homemaker, wondered what is it about Pakistani
men that makes them so "special" to Western women. "Look at the way
they treat our women. I think they are so chauvinistic and full of
themselves. I wonder what these women find attractive in them? "May
be they should launch their charm offensive on Pakistani women.
That's something we women will never complaint against," Haq chuckled.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a6ae38db-48fc-4df4-a84b-71cc5fa00a70&&Headline=Britney+Spears+moving+to+P akistan%3f
What is it about Pakistani men that glamorous women from the West
find so irresistible? The latest rumour of pop singer Britney Spears
possibly converting to Islam and moving to Pakistan with her
companion Adnan Ghalib has set off a debate among women in the
country.
The grapevine is abuzz with twice-divorced singer Spear's romance
with little known Ghalib, a man of Pakistani origin. Spears,
according to Britain's Sun newspaper, wanted to fake her death and
embrace Islam and move to Pakistan and start a new life!
Ghalib, 35, who works for a photo agency, is being described as "a
gold digger" whom the "lonely" and "vulnerable" Spears cannot do
without.
According to media reports, Ghalib's respectable Sunni Muslim family
in Birmingham is so horrified by his antics that they have disowned
him.
"His parents Ghalib and Saghra are devastated. This week his dad gave
him an ultimatum, 'Give up Britney, or you are dead to me,' which
Adnan ignored," a friend of Ghalib was quoted as saying.
But much before Spears, there was Jemima Khan, the glamorous daughter
of a millionaire who married the much older cricketer Imran Khan
against her family's wishes and moved to Pakistan. Their marriage did
not last and she was back in London with her two sons in less than a
decade.
The romance of Diana, the Princess of Wales, who reportedly found
her "Mr Wonderful" in a Pakistani cardiologist in London, is another
case in point.
Hasnat Khan decided not to marry his love because of the great
cultural divide. Unfortunately, his marriage to a woman of Afghan
royalty did not last reportedly because of his Diana connection.
Sehr Naqvi, a homemaker, said: "I think Pakistani men are more
committed and, of course, the Pathan genes hold them in good stead.
Britney Spears is hardly a good example - well, she could fall for
anyone - but we have had Jemima and Diana too falling for Pakistani
men."
With the news of Hasnat Khan breaking his silence over his "affair"
with Diana, the topic is hot at dinner tables.
"May be he didn't speak about Diana because his own marriage was not
working out. We learnt that he has separated from his wife of 18
months just yesterday. But he seems still so much in love with
Diana," Naqvi said.
Like Naqvi, many feel Diana and Jemima were good news for Pakistan,
but they can do without Spears. "I can imagine how the orthodox
amongst us would react. I can almost see a fatwa against Spears
coming," said Shazia, Naqvi's 22-year-old daghter.
Shahida Haq, another homemaker, wondered what is it about Pakistani
men that makes them so "special" to Western women. "Look at the way
they treat our women. I think they are so chauvinistic and full of
themselves. I wonder what these women find attractive in them? "May
be they should launch their charm offensive on Pakistani women.
That's something we women will never complaint against," Haq chuckled.