I WAS editing The Review in the early 2000s when Tahir Mirza moved to Dawn, Karachi, to take up the position of news editor and our magazine’s supervisor. I learned a lot from him, mainly how to think about issues — what’s new here and/or why should I care? He helped me submit my first editorial on how fashion weeks could boost the economy. We had not had a fashion week in the country yet. On the face of it, it was about fashion, a topic usually relegated to the magazine — ie, ‘not serious’ — but because I wrote about it from an economics angle, it worked.

A year later, I was transferred to the leader writing team (a lesson on perseverance, kids) where my supervisors taught me more about how to write, especially when it’s about the same issue. What more can you say about (insert act of injustice) without sounding like a broken record?

Sometimes you have no choice but to bang that drum.

It is with this in mind that I thought about the murder of the TikToker Sana Yousaf, shot dead on her 17th birthday by a man slighted by her indifference. I have nothing to add to the voices condemning this gruesome act, but I’m taking a cue from Mirza sahib when I ask, ‘what’s new........

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