Goodbye Dr Ruth Pfau
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Rarely has lady luck rescued the most helpless section of a society in a manner that was seen in the case of the ‘untouchable’ leprosy sufferers of Pakistan. These abandoned people lay prostrate at the lowest possible depth physically, socially and materially. Providence acts in its own special ways when human hopes recede and so sent us Dr Ruth Pfau. Dr Pfau, a German Christian missionary, was on her way to India on a medical mission and had merely stopped over in Karachi to change planes. Her Indian visa being delayed she was taken around to see the leprosy patients in Karachi. This was her introduction to Pakistan. More specifically this was when she first came in contact with...