Pakistan, Oct. 24 -- Remember when a survivor of a child pornography racket busted in Kasur had wished for death to escape the horrors? The sordid saga where hundreds were tortured beyond belief did little to put a tab on the paedophile ring. With the shift in the media glare, local authorities even tried playing the blame game in a desperate attempt to cover the monstrosity up.

Six years down the road, there are now signs of Prime Minister Imran Khan coming to the aid of those, whose wounds refuse to heal. Quite ironically, their plight did not make it to his official declaration of crusade against pornography. Treading on the path of moral restructuring (probably inspired by our Turk brethren), the premier expressed intent to implement...