A year after being paralysed in a car accident, former military pilot Ajmal Samuel in 1988 injected himself with an overdose of opiate and cocaine, hoping to never wake up again.Aged 23, the Pakistani soldier was in the middle of 15 operations within two years. The chronic pain from his injured nerves felt like “somebody jabbing a knife into my legs”.“That was a dark time in my life. It just occurred to me that I’m not a hero, [or] invincible,” recalls Samuel, who was stationed in Kashmir when…
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