What does it say about the state that seven years after highlighting one of the country’s most notorious cases of honour killings, Afzal Kohistani was gunned down in a crowded Abbottabad market and nobody is the wiser about who did it? This, as everybody would remember, was because of a video showing three boys dancing and four girls singing at a wedding. Afzal’s crime, of course, was telling the world that three of the girls were killed because they violated society’s honour. This tragic case shows, at every step, just how broken down so many organs of the state are, especially investigation and justice delivery. But someone should, at the very least, step forward and take responsibility for such sorry state of affairs.

Source: Pakistan Today March 07, 2019 13:52 UTC