Would they have helped if Shaheen were, say, Australian, not Pakistani? “I don’t want to answer that out loud,” Nadir said later. “They don’t work for us. We work for them, and I want to keep working for them. They pay good salaries. Most of them are good people, and we need them to keep coming back to Pakistan, so please don’t make them look bad in your book.” It’s unfair to judge people when they’re oxygen-deprived and exhausted, he said.
