Pakistan, July 25 -- In the scorching sands of Balochistan, where the desert bears witness to centuries of customs, two young souls, Zark and Sheetal were murdered for one simple act:

they chose to love. Their crime was not theft, not violence, not betrayal. Their crime was exercising a fundamental human right, to marry by choice. And for that, they were surrounded by a mob and executed in cold blood. Sheetal's last words, "Only shooting is allowed," are not just chilling; they are damning. Damning to a society that permits murder under the mask of tradition, to a culture that celebrates silence over dissent, and to every institution that stood idle while two human beings were reduced to lifeless bodies in the name of so-called honour. W...