EVERY few months, another set of figures reminds Pakistan of a painful reality. Sahil’s latest Six Months Cruel Numbers Report, documenting 3,172 cases of gender-based violence between January and June this year, is the latest in a long line of studies showing that women continue to face violence in alarming numbers. Murders, torture, abductions, rapes and ‘honour’ killings all feature in the report, but the numbers tell only part of the story. Some of its most........

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