Emad was born and grew up in Uganda. He was a keen hockey player and studied hard but he was also very sociable and made some lifelong friends from this period in his life.
Here he was very active pursuing his hobbies of hockey, motor racing, photography and mountain climbing! Driving was to remain his lifelong passion.
He left as a teenager to go to Gordon College in Pakistan to complete his higher education. He then attended Khyber Medical College where he qualified as a doctor.
Not only did he complete his further education in Pakistan, he met the love of his life, Hussan Ara, there.
They had a whirlwind romance, overcoming cultural and familial obstacles to together.
In 1968 they married in Lahore, Pakistan when Emad took Hussan Ara to his home country. They lived together in Uganda working as doctors and had a baby girl, Honeyia in Kampala. They managed to enjoy. Their time there but also overcame much hardship until the political regime at the time became very hostile toward families who immigrated to Uganda historically.
In 1972 after numerous atrocities in their local area they made a decision to move to England.
They secured work as doctors before travelling and arrived with suitcases, a young child and the clothes they were in. Hussan Ara was heavily pregnant at this time and shortly after arriving gave birth to a baby boy, Fowad.
After working in northern England for a brief time they settled in Pudsey, Leeds.
Dr Emad Minhas 