In Pakistan, Carrying On a Legacy of Answering SOS Calls
" Mr. Edhi said of his father. that He wanted to make Pakistan a social welfare state without participating in politics,
Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center said that He carries this huge responsibility on his shoulders,
" Faisal Edhi said. that I would ask him how we would continue in his absence,
Work at the foundation has not stopped for a day, he said, not even for his father’s state funeral in July.
Islamic charities, he said, have undercut individual donations to Edhi by dividing people along
sectarian lines, since Islamic charities are often closely linked to a particular sect.
As the noted urban planner Arif Hasan put it in the 1990s, "Without the Edhi Trust one does not know how Karachi would cope with its victims
of violence." Carrying on the work of his father is a major task for Mr. Edhi, an affable, personable man with a dry sense of humor.