State must recognise why public suspicion has intensifiedThe 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. A system that requires public pressure and a grieving family's persistence to arrive at the truth is not a system working as intended. Why was the possibility of murder not properly pursued from the outset? Simultaneously, the state must recognise why public suspicion has intensified.