Pakistan, Nov. 28 -- The woman found raped and murdered in Karachi's Clifton last week was not the first and will not be the last. Her body, discovered in an upscale neighbourhood built on claims of safety, is only the latest entry in a ledger that has grown far beyond individual crimes. Pakistan now lives with levels of sexual violence that no longer shock. Anyone paying attention saw this coming.
Ours is a country where girls are assaulted in mosques, patients are violated in hospitals, and infants are raped by men who later insist they felt tempted. The pattern is too extensive to be blamed on failure in one city. It is a national emergency. Police data tells its own story, where thousands of rape cases are registered every year, and mo...