Ejaz Haider: Not just murder

The Solangi case is not just murder because the method adopted says something about the killer and the killed. The cruelty of the deed is not only remarkable, but its deliberateness is chilling in the extreme

The media has commented on Tasleem Solangi’s case, as it should have. Condemnations have come thick and fast. That too was expected; nothing less could have done. But there are other aspects of this case that have mostly gone unnoticed.

There is murder and there is murder. You can put a bullet through someone’s head or put one in his stomach and leave him to die a slow, painful death. You can drive a knife through someone’s heart or plunge it in his guts and twist it there. You can slash someone’s throat, burn him to death, throw him down to his death from a height or water-board him to death.

The list is long and the end-objective is to kill.

Yet, some ways of killing reveal more about what binds the one who is performing the deed and on whom the deed is being performed.Ejaz Haider: Not just murder