Rafia Zakaria is the author of "The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan" (Beacon 2015) and Veil (Bloomsbury 2017). Rafia ZakariaAnd yet, for all gruesome details of Zainab's killing and all the outrage currently coursing through Pakistan, it is unlikely that children like Zainab will gain any meaningful protection from childhood sexual abuse. One significant reason for this is there is no such thing as sex education in Pakistan, let alone childhood sexual abuse prevention education. The taboo against public discussions of sex is extended to sex education and child sexual abuse prevention. The concept that sex education can be done in an age-appropriate way to protect the child from abuse is anathema.

Source: CNN January 13, 2018 16:18 UTC