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Rickshaw driver Ashiq: From Olympics cycling track to roads of Lahore
LAHORE: Former Olympian Muhammad Ashiq looks daily at the trophies he won in a glittering cycling career for Pakistan decades ago. “Perhaps most people think that I have died,” he laments.
“I just recall that I have shaken hands with... former Pakistani prime ministers, presidents, chief executives,” the 81-year-old tells AFP tearfully.
“Why and how they all forgot me, I cannot believe.” Ashiq, who competed for Pakistan at the 1960 and the 1964 Olympics, now scrapes by as a rickshaw driver in Lahore.