Pakistan, July 3 -- No warning, no hint, no insinuation, and you are gone - within 45 minutes - Azam. The doctors were helpless; the angel of mortality was quicker. The call was final; it defied all efforts to stop you from flying to the unknown world. The will of the Supreme, the pull of the celestial living, the mortality of this world, or the combination of the three was the force pushing you for this abrupt and hasty goodbye to us.

Muhammad Azam Brohi, my nephew, went to the USA after graduation in 1992-93. He graduated and joined the education department. Later, by sheer dint of good luck, his parents and four younger siblings won the Green Card Lottery in the late 1990s and migrated to the USA. He had a promising career as an educa...