KARACHI, PakistanKARACHI, Pakistan — There’s a scrum of people trying to get photos with the married couple at the Radiance banquet hall, and you can barely hear someone talk above the din of 400 ...

Pakistani influencer Saniya Farrukh’s wedding should have been a full stop moment. Soft pinks, fairy-tale aesthetics, and a Nikkah that looked like it floated straight out of a Pinterest board.

Two days before his wedding, Noor Muhammad had a long phone call with his mother, just hours before devastating floods in Pakistan killed her along with 23 family members and relatives. "I cannot ...