Amber Khan is happy in her life. Does she think she can achieve anything she sets her heart to? Her husband Imranul Haq would probably agree.

"She thinks she is never wrong," he says. However, that did not prevent him from pursuing her for months with flowers to hear her say yes to his proposal. That should be taken as proof that he, too, admires her confidence.

Together, the Virgo-Taurus couple run a public relations, media strategy and event management enterprise. Their portfolio is quite impressive as their clients include many well-known multinationals.

However, Amber Khan is best known to the masses through her appearance on television in ads as well as a host and anchorperson in BMN's Business review news and Indus Vision's Grapevine.

Amber and Imran also hosted a very interesting programme on the indigenous cuisine of Pakistan called Tuck a truck. They took their viewers to remote parts of the country and introduced them to the foods and flavours of those regions.

Currently, Amber is working on An evening with a star with Sultana Siddiqui, again a show with a lot of glamour. What next? She is all set to appear in a Haseena Moin serial soon to be shot in Glasgow.

"Actually I was approached by the writer once before," she admits. "However, at that time I was too busy with my other commitments to fulfil my long-held desire of acting in her serial."

One thing that is true and almost irritating about Amber Khan as a celebrity is that she places too much importance on her family life. She speaks of it with a reverence.

that could easily get on the nerves of a fan who is expecting to hear more of her adventurous side. Work means mostly her public relations firm rather than the glamour and glitz of the mini-screen.

As compared to other showbiz people, Amber's life story is quite smooth. She was born to a set of parents who are both Capricorn, her mother being more of a go-getter than her father who was a rather cool, laidback person.

She got admission in a medical college, which was what her mother wanted of her, but Amber had already set her heart on studying abroad.

True to her claim that she usually gets whatever she aims at, she went ahead to, Texas with the full support of her family and obtained a bachelors degree in biomedical engineering.

On her return she shifted to Karachi where her family had moved, and started working for a multinational company that specialized in supplying medical electronics. That did not quite sound like biomedical engineering in the true sense though.

"I got bored selling three machines in a whole year, which is usually the extent of the hospitals' purchasing capacity here," Amber says. "I decided to apply for a job in a public relations firm, and I got selected."

Incidentally, her first day at this new job was also the day she decided she would marry Imranul Haq, who had been running a restaurant in those days. In April 1999 they started an enterprise of their own and later the same year they got married.

"I love to spend time with my husband," says Amber. "I am a very family-oriented person, and family usually takes priority in my life. Recently, I was approached to do the elections transmission which involved spending 72-hours in the studio.

That was just the kind of work I would have loved to do, but then I thought it would be unfair on my family if I spent so much time away from them." Hence, it just became another of the countless television offers to which her refusal is not a judgment of their merit.

The thrills she needs in life usually come from the public relations work itself. The couple excitedly recalls a get-together of the Pakistan Chapter of the Young Presidents'

Organization in Lahore last year where over 200 young executives of highly prestigious enterprises from all over the world flew in for a three-day gala (partly arranged by Amber and Imran's company).

"We met an Indian couple who became so friendly with us that they invited us to their daughter's wedding later that year," Amber recalls. "At first we thought that this was just a courteous gesture,

but they actually followed it up and helped us through all the difficult stages of obtaining a visa for India. We loved it so much, our entire stay in Delhi was simply out of this world." If you ask her to describe her ideal vacation, she would readily reply,

"That wedding ceremony in Delhi." She might add with a little afterthought, "And of course I would love to revisit America any time. Since I studied there for four years it is like a second home to me. I have so many friends there."

Working in public relations has turned out to be the right kind of thing for her. She likes the prospect of meeting people, managing the media to attain the desired targets and playing a controller of destiny for high-profile companies. This is, after all, what it means to be adventurous without being rebellious. An adventurer and a thrill-seeker she is.

A rebel or a nonconformist she is not. She has no qualms about admitting that she listens to whatever music is in vogue, ranging from Enigma, modern pop, Indian film music, Pakistani young generation singers and, "frankly, whatever is the latest in the market.

" She picks her books off the shelves of the bookstores without being too selective (although she admits a special liking for the Chicken soup for the soul series.. "I like uplifting and inspiring stuff," she says).

This is the profile of a person cut out to be an image consultant, or a public relations winner. Amber Khan would flow with the tide and appear to be at ease with everything.