Four years after he came to town, Usman Rashid Khokhar is getting his moment to shine for a long-overdue introduction in The Coonamble Times.
“I was waiting for this moment,” he said.
“Libby Burnheim [former Coonamble Hospital leader], she asked me last year and then I went overseas.
“I missed that chance and I was just waiting.
“‘Why do they never call? I want to see myself on the page,’” he laughed.
Usman was born to a rice farming family in the eastern Pakistani province of Punjab in . . .
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