Pakistan, Aug. 24 -- Hina Javed had been married for nine months when an emergency call sent her brother racing to an Askari Apartments flat in Rawalpindi. At 7:23 pm, he found his sister dead in the washroom. Police say a wire was fastened around her neck and tied to the shower rod, and the initial postmortem recorded a strangulation mark, an injury below her right lip and bleeding. A Rawalpindi magistrate has placed her husband and domestic servant in three days of police custody. Meanwhile, the Punjab Forensic Science must still determine the final cause of death. It goes without saying that the investigation must establish responsibility.

These details will live with Hina's family long after the story leaves the headlines. A bathroom...