Islamabad, Aug. 23 -- Over the last decade, there has been a disturbing surge in extrajudicial killings in the form of mob violence and lynching across Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, the three countries that once made up the great Indian subcontinent.

On August 17, 2019, a 16-year-old 'alleged thief' was beaten to death by an enraged crowd in Karachi, Pakistan. There was no evidence that he had stolen anything. It was just an accusation. In 2010, two brothers, 17-year-old Mughees Butt and 15-year-old Muneeb Butt, were beaten to death after being accused of stealing, while nine police officers watched the mob hanging the bodies of the young boys.

In November 2014, a mob in the hundreds bludgeoned and burnt alive a Christian couple Shama...