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Rafia Zakaria is an author, attorney and human rights activist who has worked on behalf of victims of domestic violence around the world. She is a columnist for DAWN (Pakistan), and she writes for the New York Times, Al Jazeera English, Dissent. Rafia was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, and now lives in the United States where she serves on the board of directors of Amnesty International USA and is completing a Ph.D in political philosophy focusing on Muslim women and Sharia law.
When Bushra Zaidi was killed by a bus on her way to college, the city of Karachi erupted, says Rafia Zakaria in this excerpt from “The Upstairs Wife.” Justice for her death didn’t come until two years later, in 1988, during the national elections.