Pakistan, June 7 -- Sana was 17. A girl with a voice, a life, and a boundary she had every right to draw. She said no. And for that, she was murdered. Shot by a man who believed her refusal was not a right but a rebellion.

What followed was more chilling than the act itself. The silence. The smirks. The justifications. A swarm of commentary not about the man who pulled the trigger but about the girl who dared to say no. Where was her family? Why was she online? Why was she visible? In Pakistan, it seems, a woman's mere existence in public space is treated as provocation and her death, an inevitability.

We all know how this is a pattern. A sickening pattern in a culture that grants men limitless entitlement while demanding women carry th...