Lahore: A seven-year-old girl and two women were attacked with acid by two men at a busy market in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, witnesses and police said. The women and the girl were emerging from the Sunday Bazar in Sanda area when the two men, who were riding a motorcycle, threw acid at them and fled. The trio was rushed to Mayo Hospital. Salman Kazmi, a doctor at the hospital,...
08:02 PM, May 27, 2012
Rohtak: A teenage girl, who is a junior national volleyball player, was hospitalised with serious injuries after two motorcycle-borne youth threw acid on her while she was going for practice on Saturday evening, police said. Ritu Saini, 17, was taken to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak with burn injuries on her face and chest. The youth managed to escape from the spot after the attack near...
11:27 AM, May 27, 2012
London: Using acid as a weapon to disfigure women has become a worrying trend in Pakistan. But now the tables seem to have been turned on them and Pakistani men are reported to be facing the brunt of "revenge attacks" launched by women. Over 8,500 acid attacks, forced marriages and other forms of violence against women were reported in Pakistan in 2011, the Daily Mail reported citing the Aurat Foundation,...
02:46 PM, May 12, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistani woman who attacked her ex-fiance's father with acid after their engagement was called off by the man's family has been awarded a 34-year jail term by an anti-terrorism court. The court at Faisalabad in Punjab province announced the verdict on Thursday against the woman identified only as Rukhsana after recording evidence and the statements of witnesses. It was not clear why the case was handled by the...
02:08 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Islamabad: Barely a month after Pakistan bagged its first Oscar for a documentary on victims of acid attacks, the country's most famous face of one such assault ended her 13-year ordeal by jumping out of her sixth-floor apartment in Italy. Fakhra Yunus was 22 when her husband Bilal Khar, a member of the politically strong Khar family of Punjab, marred her life by allegedly throwing acid on her face just...
06:15 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Mumbai: With two more arrests, Crime Branch claims to have cracked a recent acid attack case in which a 22-year-old woman was injured at Goregaon station. Police had earlier nabbed Nasir Shaikh alias Pintu and his mother Manju Anwar Ali Shaikh, on whose orders the offence had been carried out. On Monday, Unit X of Crime Branch apprehended the two accused identified as Firoz Memon alias Papa (23) and Firoz...
08:39 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Mumbai: With two more arrests, the Mumbai Police Crime Branch claims to have cracked a recent acid attack case in which a 22-year-old woman was injured at Goregaon station. Police had earlier nabbed Nasir Shaikh alias Pintu and his mother Manju Anwar Ali Shaikh, on whose orders the offence had been carried out. Yesterday, Unit X of Crime Branch apprehended the two accused identified as Firoz Memon alias Papa (23)...
11:52 AM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: A group of hooligans kidnapped a junior school teacher and threw acid on her in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. She was dumped in a car near her place when her family found her and registered an FIR at the Burra police station. She was immediately taken to the local hospital an her condition is still critical. No arrests have been made so far. ...
10:56 AM, Nov 27, 2011
Chandigarh: A girl was seriously injured when two unidentified youth riding a motorcycle allegedly threw acid on her at a petrol pump in Dhaun village in Punjab's Mohali district on Thursday. Police officials said the men drove up to the petrol pump and threw acid at the girl when she was refueling her car. The girl is reported to have been seriously injured. Her friends have suffered minor injuries as...
07:44 AM, Sep 02, 2011
The victim has been hospitalised but her condition is not stable. ...
03:03 PM, Jul 02, 2009
Haseena Husain was attacked with acid when she was just 19 years old. ...
02:31 AM, Mar 27, 2009
Two were seriously hurt and the third received minor burn injuries. ...
04:13 PM, Feb 19, 2009
She developed complications before suffering a cardiac arrest. ...
03:40 PM, Dec 31, 2008
Questions are being raised about why the men were not arrested. ...
02:56 AM, Dec 14, 2008
The three were arrested in connection with an acid attack on two college students. ...
10:02 AM, Dec 13, 2008
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