RTHK HONG KONG STORIES: A WARRIOR OF LIFE FROM PAKISTAN
In 1987, a young officer in the Pakistani army, still in his early twenties, was travelling down a steep mountain road in Kashmir when his jeep went over the edge and into a ravine. The driver was killed. Ajmal survived, but he would never walk again. In this episode of Hong Kong Stories: Connected with Hong Kong, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) tells the story of what came next.
From treatment in the United Kingdom and recovery in Germany to a summer visit to Hong Kong that became a lifetime, the programme follows Ajmal through two and a half years of looking for work in the Hong Kong of the 1990s, the discrimination he faced as a wheelchair user, and the online payments business he went on to build.
It also shows how sport replaced morphine as his answer to chronic pain: rowing for Hong Kong at the Asian Games and other international events, long-distance hand-cycling to raise funds for others, and his dream of flying solo as a paraglider.
Programme: Hong Kong Stories: Connected with Hong Kong, “A Warrior of Life from Pakistan”
Chinese title: 香港故事：情繫香港 不說不知世界情「來自巴國的生命鬥士」
Broadcaster: Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), RTHK TV 31 and TV 32
Length: 24m:07s
Language: English and Cantonese, with English subtitles
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Shown with kind permission of RTHK.