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Murder unanswered

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tuesday

The death of Mir Raza, the owner of a Karachi-based dessert chain, has now taken a new turn. A kidnapping case that briefly drifted toward a theory of suicide has been reclassified as murder, only after the family forced a court-ordered exhumation and a second post-mortem exposed what the first had missed or chosen not to see. That reversal should trouble us more than it comforts us. A system that requires public pressure and a grieving family's persistence to arrive at the truth is not a system working as........

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