Pakistan, Sept. 17 -- The country has not even begun to digest the heart churning story of the motorway gang rape yet the news cycle is already flush with reports of two suspects confessing to raping and killing a minor girl in Karachi. It turns out that the six-year-old girl, who had gone to fetch sweets from a market in the corner of the street where she lived, but was kidnapped and gang raped, then killed, her body burnt and put in a bag before being dumped in a garbage pile somewhere. The situation is made all the more unacceptable because of reports, once again, that the poor girl fell victim to a habitual offender residing on the same street.

How is it that these so called habitual offenders are able to not just roam freely but als...