Aftab Iqbal said when Hasb-e-Haal got succeed my friends and relatives thought it is just by chance but I believe that I will do more better as khabarnaak got succeed just in two months. He said I will leave hosting of khabarnaak in the next two years and next possibly host of this program would be my daughter as she was with me in the preparation of this program.
Aftab Iqbal wants to focus on his production house as he wants to do different sort of programs. He also wants to work on his Biography as well as he plans to work on the English program like Hasb-e-Haal style. Aftab Iqbal said when i asked for program in a TV then I thought why not put this program on the lines of my column. My columns are mostly mischievous but there is also beauty of style with it, as this was become the basic idea for the cause of Hasb-e-Halaal .
The 52-years old journalist and television host has been writing columns for a long time in English and Urdu also as he also get an opportunity to work with the Punjab Government as a media consultant. He said that this experience has introduced him to the country’s system. He also added that he got an opportunity to look closely many states but the time he had spent in Washington is always with him that’s why he supposed his second home to the Washington, DC.
He also got a chance to study in the United States in 1980s as United States is very close to his heart because he had the opportunity to learn many things in life from there. Aftab is the son of the Urdu poet Zafar Iqbal and he graduated with Masters from the Government College University in Lahore in 1985 and studied history at the San Jose State University in California in 1986.