Minor’s brutal killing

It also raises questions about the state of orphanages, the depth to which humanity has stooped, and the shameful conduct of lawyers.The short life of Waseem Abbas, the victim, was a catalog of institutional neglect.

Abandoned at a private shelter after his parents separated, the minor boy was sent to learn electrical work under a contractor who oversaw dozens of boys – a clear violation of child labour laws.

When Waseem tried to flee this abusive arrangement after a workplace dispute, his employer, Tauqeer Nazir, chased him down in a car, deliberately crushing him against a gate.

He died at the scene, alone and terrified, while the state's only contribution was to record his murder after the fact.This tragedy exposes the dark side of our society that tends to ignore the exploitation of its most vulnerable.

Here, children are not viewed as innocent lives to be nurtured, but as cheap, expendable commodities.

The way Waseem ran for his life suggests a child running away from systemic physical or emotional abuse – yet there was no safety net to catch him, only the cold cruelty of an entitled master.

That a man could look at a fleeing, terrified teenager and weaponise a vehicle to crush him shows how deeply the moral fabric of our society has rotted.Compounding this moral decay was the disgraceful spectacle at the local courts.

When the accused was produced for his hearing, a group of lawyers assaulted him outside the courtroom, slapping and punching him despite the presence of police.

It was a mob in black coats acting as self-appointed judges – making a mockery of the rule of law.

Ironically, those sworn to uphold the law instead mirrored the very lawlessness that killed Waseem, exposing a broken system where raw emotion and brute force override the pursuit of actual institutional justice.