Pakistan, Feb. 25 -- All this talk of Pakistani civic society getting together to plan out building bridges among communities and carving out a line of action against the onslaught of verbal weapons of mass destruction is a futile exercise.

After all, ours is a country fixated on the ways of the Dark Ages, the latest evidence of which made rounds on social media on Friday. In the video, an assistant sub-inspector of Taxila Police, infuriated by the accused and his mother's resistance to arrest, lost his cool and knocked the poor woman into the middle of next week.

His rage not satiated by the sight of her wringing on the ground, the police officer stormed off; leaving a large group of bystanders to wonder the actual worth of their lives...