Stories from the past

Akram has fond memories of his upbringing in his home village of Shadikhan in Pakistan. He loved school as a young boy and was a very bright student. It laid the foundation for his future educational achievements and most importantly taught him to speak, read and write fluently in Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, aside from his mother tongue of Pushto.

When Akram came to England as a boy, he remembered the weather was dreadful; there was two feet of snow at Heathrow Airport. Akram initially lived in Wincobank, Sheffield for a short time and he was enrolled in the local Wincobank Primary School and naturally had a lot of catching up to do, first objective was to learn English. His father again started a grocery and butchers business in Sheffield, but this time in partnership with a good friend Mr Malik.