Pakistan, July 28 -- In an age where pixels often substitute for power, a single smartphone can now expose what decades of silence tried to bury.

On a blistering afternoon in the arid landscape of Balochistan, a young couple, Bano Bibi and Ahsan Ullah, were brutally killed for choosing each other over tribal decrees. Once upon a time, such honour killings would vanish into the folds of unrecorded history, quietly absolved by local jirgas and ignored by state machinery. But not anymore! This time, someone captured the event. And in the aftermath, someone posted it. Within hours, what was meant to be buried became a burning headline. The hashtags began to trend. The pressure began to mount. The government, reluctantly, responded under the ...