I was born and brought up in Kashmir Valley. I am an academic researcher, and have been a regular contributor to Wikimedia projects since March 2019. I am an enthusiastic traveller and randomly photograph nature: sky, water and else. I also have a mobile account AafiOnMobile, and before having myself renamed to Aafi, my account was at TheAafi, which is now a doppelgänger account. عافی is my another doppelgänger username. I am a Wikimedia organiser: find me around here.

Note to fellow admins: In case you disagree with any of my administrative actions or simply feel that I might have made a mistake, feel free to revert without asking (but) leave me a private note through a wiki-mail.

I am a sysop here, on Meta-Wiki, on Urdu Wikiquote, and on the Urdu Wikipedia, where I am also a bureaucrat. I volunteer as a translation administrator across several projects, and have the global renamer previleges. I member of the Volunteer Response Team, and occasionally help with the tickets. I established Deoband Community Wikimedia in 2021 to help document knowledge related to global Muslim academia on Wikimedia projects (see my role account Aafi (DCW)). I feel happy when asked to help, and consider myself a learner. I am comfortable with English, Hindi, Kashmiri and Urdu languages.