Pakistan, Aug. 5 -- When a nation teaches its people to fear thought, to fear questions, and to kill in the name of silence, it doesn't just bury its dead, it buries its future. In Pakistan, this burial is repeated with unsettling regularity, especially for women who dare to step beyond inherited limits. Illiteracy, manipulated faith, and generational rigidity conspire to make not just liberty but survival itself a gamble.

In July 2025, a young couple in a remote region of Balochistan was executed by local tribesmen after eloping without the consent of their families. Accused of violating religious and cultural codes, their crime was love; their sentence, death. Their story vanished within days, consumed by the perpetual churn of tragedy...