If you grew up in Pakistan, you did not need anyone to explain who Edhi was. You saw his ambulances — battered, silver and red, everywhere — long before you understood what they meant. He was simply a fact of the country, the way the weather is a fact.

Abdul Sattar Edhi built, more or less with …

I do not follow many people on the internet. The feed mostly just makes me tired. But there is one man I have watched for a while now, from here in Spain, with something close to quiet pride, and his name is Azad Chaiwala.

If you do not know him, the short version is this: a Pakistani who has spent …

I left Pakistan in 2022, and I have been in Spain ever since. Distance does a strange thing to a person. It softens some opinions and sharpens others. The country I argued with constantly while I lived inside it is the country I now defend, quietly, at dinner tables in a language that is not mine, …