[DAWN] WHAT began with a song and a dance continues in a seemingly endless spiral of violence. The killing of Afzal Kohistan...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
i ‐ who in 2012 made the apparent ’honour’ killing of five women in Kohistan public ‐ is not surprising. Afzal himself had feared it for many years.
But it should still shock us for both its audacity and inevitability, and for what it indicates about the extent to which the Pak state’s writ has eroded (if it ever existed, that is).