In Pakistan, Carrying On a Legacy of Answering SOS Calls<br />" Mr. Edhi said of his father. that He wanted to make Pakistan a social welfare state without participating in politics,<br />Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center said that He carries this huge responsibility on his shoulders,<br />" Faisal Edhi said. that I would ask him how we would continue in his absence,<br />Work at the foundation has not stopped for a day, he said, not even for his father’s state funeral in July.<br />Islamic charities, he said, have undercut individual donations to Edhi by dividing people along<br />sectarian lines, since Islamic charities are often closely linked to a particular sect.<br />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<br />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.
