Pakistan: A Personal History · Chapter Five

'Angels in Disguise': Building a Hospital, 1984–1995

1984 — 1995

Fundraising across Pakistan and the diaspora, cricket tours turned into telethons, and the small daily gifts of ordinary Pakistanis — the 'angels in disguise' who built Shaukat Khanum.

Winning the 1992 World Cup as captain of the 'Cornered Tigers' gives the appeal its final push. The hospital opens in Lahore in December 1994.