DNA be damned: flawed judgements in Mazaar gang rape acquittals
Crime reporters in Karachi newsrooms are so intimately familiar with the extremities of vile human behaviour that even the most unspeakable of acts—necrophilia, incest—leave them unfazed. Remember the woman who chopped up her husband and cooked him in a handi with her butcher loverman? Or the bone-chilling Paposhnagar grave defiler? This week, however, a court made fresh memories of a case that even the most hardened of hacks had found difficult to digest: the Quaid-e-Azam mazaar gang rape case from thirteen years ago. A newly wed teenager was found stumbling around outside the mazaar by R...