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Zaheer Abbas: The pair of glasses that changed my life

The Pakistan legend, Zaheer Abbas, on how his father’s foresight allowed him to survive and then getting a pair of glasses saw him thrive.

The Pakistan legend, Zaheer Abbas, on how his father’s foresight allowed him to survive and then getting a pair of glasses saw him thrive. Interview by Matt Thacker.

Childhood memories
I am almost the same age as my country.
I was born in 1947, the year the Indian subcontinent was divided and Pakistan came into being as an independent nation.
My father had foreseen the tensions that would accompany Partition and ensured that my mother stayed in Sialkot before my birth.
How dangerous her stay at his station of duty would have been is shown by the fact that the special train carrying Pakista...

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