Sabyn Javeri

A bomb blast, a bullet gone astray, a blow to the head and before you know it, boom! The life has gone out of you. Perhaps you think I didn't try to stop her. I tried to tell her there's danger. Truly, I tried. The General and his men, I said, they will kill you. Why do you think they are letting you do the rally? So they can send you away for good! To a place you can never return from," the opening lines of Pakistani writer Sabyn Javeri's debut novel Nobody Killed Her (HarperCollins) reads.