Noor Ahmed is forty-four. He lays blocks for boundary walls in Phase 8 of the Defence Housing Authority. He takes the W-11 minibus from Orangi Town at six in the morning and returns after dark. He has built the perimeters of thirty-seven homes. He does not own a wall of his own.
He is paid twelve hundred rupees a day, in cash, on Thursdays. His name is n…
