- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Pramod Thomas
THE 14-year-old visually impaired Sirine Jahangir became the first British-Pakistani to reach the semi-finals of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.
She left everyone stunned with an incredibly moving and personal rendition of Ruelle’s Carry You, said reports.
Lost vision at the age of nine, Jahangir won over the hearts of judges and the audience with her unmatched talent and inspiring story.
“When I was walking towards the stage, the only thing I wanted was to do something that enables me to help people like me,” she told BBC.
She and her parents realised she had a serious eyesight problem when she dressed up as a pirate aged five.
As soon as a patch covered her right eye she couldn’t see anything, as all vision had already gone from her left.
After a number of medical procedures, Jahangir lost all vision in her right eye when she was just nine.
“Sirine has been really brave, courageous and smart despite facing a difficult period. When she lost her sight, I knew at the time that the universe wants her to do something big,” Kafeel Jahangir, her father, told BBC.
“We tried everything, even having her treated in India for six weeks and injections into her eye. But we felt helpless. When she was nine, Sirine was playing a game on her iPad and holding it very close to her face as she always did. Suddenly she came over, handed me the tablet and said she couldn’t play it any more. That was the moment I knew her sight was gone.
