Pakistan, June 5 -- "News of death, especially if unrelated to the dreaded coronavirus, seems all the more dismal. Where newspaper accounts are lean on details, I follow up with a Google search." This is an excerpt from Dr. Asif Aslam Farrukhi's article that was published on May 10, 2020, in an English language newspaper of Pakistan. Who would have thought that three weeks later, people would be shocked upon hear his sudden passing away. He breathed his last on June 1. He was 60.

Dr. Farrukhi was born in Karachi on September 16, 1959. He attended Karachi's St Patrick's School before doing his intermediate from D.J. Science College. Dr. Farrukhi completed his MBBS from the Dow Medical College, Karachi in 1984, and Masters in Public Health...