Imaginary justice

ON any given day, newspaper headlines across Pakistan are littered with updates on court cases. These usually fall into two categories. The first are updates on cases involving political leaders in prison: so and so is brought out for a hearing, so and so has a case stayed. The second category comprises criminal cases that have, largely owing to social media, attracted some attention. Many involve female victims who were killed or raped, sometimes both. Dead women are a topic of interest in Pakistan — much more so than living women. There is, however, a third category of cases. These belong…