Pakistan, March 21 -- In a landmark judgment, a man in Lahore has been sentenced to a 29-year jail term for the heinous crime of raping a minor girl by a special court for gender-based violence Rightly hailed as a significant step towards justice for the victim and a powerful deterrent for potential offenders, this verdict might finally be the gush of fresh air, Pakistani women have been tirelessly waiting for.

However, the pounding gavel is not just the only extraordinary development in this incident. As of now, the entire onus of the investigation lies on the shoulders of the rapist who lured a 10-year-old girl to his house under false pretences and subjected her to a horrific sexual assault. There's no media frenzy and the young victi...