Pakistan, March 4 -- The horror of female infanticide continues to haunt our nation: a spectre of a cursed legacy that festers even in modern times. A newspaper report recently outlined the shocking recovery of the bodies of five newborns, all of them girls, from heaps of garbage in different areas of Sialkot during the last 15 days. Five newborn girls-abandoned, forgotten-speak volumes about a society that deems female life expendable.

Despite the Holy Quran's explicit denunciation of taking innocent lives, our culture's entrenched preference for sons has warped sacred teachings into a callous excuse for unspeakable acts. Clandestine abortion clinics operate with impunity, and lurid headlines flash across our newspapers, yet the scale o...