Pakistan, Feb. 6 -- UNICEF's warning about AI-generated sexualised images of children should have landed in Pakistan like a thunderclap. It did not. The report described a surge in synthetic abuse, where software can fabricate explicit images of minors without physical contact, without witnesses, without immediate evidence. The harm is real.

More worryingly, the danger is no longer theoretical. It is already embedded in phones, classrooms, and private chat groups across the world.

Pakistan knows what happens when abuse hides behind silence. The Kasur scandal exposed hundreds of children filmed and blackmailed over the years while neighbours looked away. Zainab's rape and murder in 2018 broke the country's composure, especially when her ...