Fauzia Fakhar-uz-Zaman Khan

Home Number:	051-9223845
Mobile Number:	0300-8563314
E-mail:	fauzia.fakhar.zaman.khan@senate.gov.pk
Local Address:	House No. 7-A St. 8, F 7/3, Islamabad.
Permanent Address:	House No. 7-A St. 8, F 7/3, Islamabad.

Qualification:

Masters in Fine Arts

Served as a Lecturer in the College of Home and Social Sciences’ Lahore.



I had been serving my constituency and contested National Assembly elections in February 1985.

1. I was born in Lahore, on 7th February 1940, in a family of ancestry. After completing my early education I did my B.A (1960) and M.A in Fine Arts (1962) from the University of the Punjab and served a teacher in the College of Home & Social Sciences Gulberg Lahore from 1962 to 1963. In September 1964 my mundance urban life underwent a major transformation when I was married to Khan Fakhar-uz-Zaman Khan of Agror, Hazara Division, NWFP.

2. My husband’s family were Swati Pathans and his ancestor, Akhund Safad-ud-Din had come from trans-India Swat with his tribesmen in the mid 16th Century, to establish his independent rule in the Agror valley of present Mansehra district. Thearea comprised some 87 villages, adjacent to the Kala Dhaka (black Mountains) tribal range, but by the 1930’s following their resistance to British occupation and successive land reforms thereafter, the Aagror Khans had lost most of their holdings and lived modestly in Oghi town, now a tehsil headquarter.

3. Inspite of this, my husband’s people still accorded him the recognition and love due to a Khan or tribal chief and he took his position very seriously. An Aitchisonian and a law graduate, he had the very highest ideals dedicated to the service of his people and the amelioration of their pathetic living condition in this intensely underdeveloped area. Immediately upon my marriage therefore, a tremendous burden of responsibility accrued to me as the Begum of Agror almost unconsciously, I fell into the habit of trying in following my husband’s example in helping out as much as I could the indigent the oppressed and the helpless, who I came to look upon as my children. The people, too returned filial sentiments with fullest devotion.

4. Our life remained a simple committed one and in due course, my husband went on to become an elected MNA and later Member Majlis-I-Shoora, so due to his enerous responsibilities further duties in Oghi developed unto me and I have tried to maintain my essential grassroots contact directly with the constituency ever since Wajih-uz-Zaman Khan, also an Artchisonian and a lawyer, who had remained an NWFP Minister and is presently the PML(Q) MPA fro from Aghi and four daughters who are all married now. One of my sons-in-law Ahmad Raza Khan Maneka is also an MNA in the Punjab. I am glad that true to their up bringing, all the children have learnt the examples of humility, compassion, integrity and selfess service which we gave them.

5. In 1984 our family suffered a server set-back with my husband’s demise of leukemia while actively representing Pakistan as a delegate in the UN in New York, USA. All that time the children were still minors and I suddenly found myself faced with the task of brining them up alone as well as protecting all the people of Oghi who had been virtually orphaned by the death of their beloved Khan. At this time, taking advantage of vulnerability, many refries elements including the notorious timber Mafia and other criminals, were actively spreading a regin of terror and exploitation in the entire district. In order to check their designs and to keep alive my husband noble tradition. I literally fought a Jihad against them from 1985 even during my Iddat period as a widow. In the same spirit, I have spent the past 39 years of my life as a mother to all my children in Oghi and have found tremendous solace in the outright support, love, loyalty and honour which Allah has seen fit to bestow upon me. When my son Wajih-uz-Zaman Khan came of age and stood up as the champion of the common man against the agents of corruption, the people responded enthusiastically, celebrating his victory as their own. Today, AI-Hamdulillah, through their prayers and efforts, I also find myself elevated to the Senate legislature.

6. As such, I have my hopes and aspirations for my people and area Despite some improvements over the years, Oghi and its adjoining areas remain among the least developed zones in Pakistan. Almost everything is lacking. The people struggle on stoically in about conditions without most of the basic necessities of life, without health and educational facilities, in grinding poverty and without viable economic opportunities, employment and industrial or agricultural infra-structure and in the most depressing environment with the rapid loss of forest resources.

7. What galls me most, at this particularly significant juncture in time, is that our honourable parliamentarians in both Houses are spending so much time in debating the LFO, in protests and argumentations, where there is so much immediate work to be done. Areas like Oghi, and countless other areas, are crying out in desperation for their duty elected representatives to change their lives. To bring them a minimum of prosperity and security. We are accountable to them for every minute that we fritter away while they languish in misery. History will not judge us kinly, either, if we left this opportunity slip out of our hands to bring about real, visible change. Indeed, I feel ashamed before the people of my area that so much time has gone by without redeeming any of the pledges to them. Let Us all realize the seriousness of the trust vested in us by the public and let us try to live up to it at once.