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MULTAN: Police on Thursday arrested a 36-year-old woman in Multan for throwing acid on a man allegedly for refusing her marriage proposal.
According to police, the woman reportedly threw acid on a 24-year-old youth after calling him at her house on Wednesday night.
Investigations reveal that the woman was angry at the victim for allegedly refusing her marriage proposal and fled the scene after committing the crime. She was, however, arrested on Thursday, police said.
The acid attack victim received 50 per cent burns and was shifted to Nishter Hopsital where police recorded his statement.
The victim's father claims that the woman is already married and has four children but still wanted to marry his son.
Between 150 and 400 cases of acid attacks are reported in Pakistan every year.
As many as 80 per cent of the victims are women, and almost 70 per cent are below 18. Such attacks are not aimed at killing the victim but to cause disfigurement, and often cause blindness, hearing loss and physical and mental pain.
Statistics show that a common trigger behind these attacks is domestic dispute. Besides domestic disputes, motives behind these cases include personal revenge, monetary and property disputes, rejection of marriage proposals, suspicions of illicit relations and marriage of choice.
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Jun 16, 2016 06:02pm
Women are sticking up to men but it should not be done this way. raise the cost of acid.
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Jun 16, 2016 06:07pm
Will she be punished the same way, the Feminist activists demand a man should be ?
Lets see !
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Jun 16, 2016 06:20pm
Speechless.
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Jun 16, 2016 06:21pm
Whether it be a man or a woman, exemplary punishment should be given.
It is the duty of the parliament to chalk laws to make our country strong.
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Jun 16, 2016 06:30pm
So the table has turned in favor of women. This time a reverse case.
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Jun 16, 2016 06:31pm
This is the new world order. I feel women will eventually be a stronger force than men. Mainly because women have fought for the rights and gotten it. This will continue. However, we must remember that God created men and women as different. They can never be equal. Stop this competition and start fulfilling your duties as a man and woman.
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Jun 16, 2016 06:33pm
Brutal society. No value for human life, and no respect
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Jun 16, 2016 06:35pm
Let's see what the feminists say about this incident.
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Jun 16, 2016 06:40pm
The problem is not with gender, the whole nation is loosing it's temper due to poverty and politics.
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Jun 16, 2016 06:40pm
How is acid so readily available in the market. Maybe the government needs to enforce stricter rules on corrosive material.
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Jun 16, 2016 06:45pm
First of its type..
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Jun 16, 2016 06:45pm
That's a first
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Jun 16, 2016 06:50pm
I find it appallingly juvenile suggestions that government should control the supply, and easy availability of acid, or should steeply increase the price of this corrosive material which is mainly used in many industries - not just to burn a jilted lover or suitor. Think of the economic impact of such a stupid idea?
If a man or woman resorts to burning a suitor with Kerosene, perhaps some would be asking for ban on Kerosene, and matches too? If she had used a knife, we would see people asking for triple the prices of all blades and sharp objects? Perhaps regulate butchers and slaughter houses in case their equipment is used for such attacks??
Ridiculous ideas. And even sillier tactics by spurned suitors. It only validates why someone would reject your proposal - with such a temperament!!!
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Jun 16, 2016 07:06pm
Whoever disfigures another human being or even any living being with acid is wrong. It is nothing but a short-lived rage that devastates the victim's entire life. It is the animal inside us that can have that urge to do so.
Tame that animal. Want to know how? Get education.
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Jun 16, 2016 07:14pm
Free for all in Pakistan! Where are we going?
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Jun 16, 2016 07:14pm
Stop all the TV dramas, these are spoiling the mind of women.
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Jun 16, 2016 07:19pm
I see some people saying its a first, which is not the case. It is however, one of those rare incidents where a woman took a page of men's book, as over 90% of such attacks were perpetrated by men. Eitherway, I have always been a proponent of life sentence without parole for any acid attack, i deem it a heinous crime,whether the victim be a man or woman, albiet majority has been women. Although I am not a feminist.
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Jun 16, 2016 07:29pm
@Thought I couldn't agree more.
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Jun 16, 2016 07:33pm
Acids are easily available, to gain personal vengeance?
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Jun 16, 2016 07:45pm
All violence is wrong, and should be punished.
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Jun 16, 2016 07:47pm
very sad, stern action should be taken against woman who involved in an acid attack
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Jun 16, 2016 08:05pm
Acid must be banned with an immediate effect. Pakistani Govt. must take notice seriously.
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Jun 16, 2016 08:06pm
Notice the deafening silence from the feminists and the unblinkered, ever-present otherwise, women's rights advocates!
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Jun 16, 2016 08:18pm
A desperate act of a loser, an angry and vicious broad - not quite the catch!
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Jun 16, 2016 08:33pm
Tables turned! From one extreme to the other.
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Jun 16, 2016 08:36pm
Punishment must be carried out according to the law, no ifs and buts.
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Jun 16, 2016 08:44pm
If only men show similar reaction when the victim is a woman.
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Jun 16, 2016 08:53pm
Should be punished for the crime,not for the gender,
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Jun 16, 2016 08:53pm
First a woman burns her daughter in Lahore and now this, sad to see that problem is catching on.
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Jun 16, 2016 09:17pm
One in a million .... other side of pic
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Jun 16, 2016 09:28pm
I have been reading these stories forever. But, never once the reporter talked about how the acid was obtained by the perpetrator. I'm assuming this is not a household item. Can the administration have a check on the supplier and make them liable?
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Jun 16, 2016 11:17pm
Why is acid available for sale in the first place? Is deforming females and now males the sole purpose of acid sale?
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Jun 16, 2016 11:35pm
I suggest acid purchase should be tied to a mandatory family persons of at least 3 members. Note their ID card details and note it's purpose. If abused the 3 should be held responsible.
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Jun 17, 2016 12:51am
Acid- $50,000 an ounce.
Then this menace will stop.
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Jun 17, 2016 02:25am
Its a first. Yes the Acid or any other chemical should only be sold to professional people that use them for industrial usage. People wondering where this Acid comes from, it is also found in Car batteries. In Pakistan they use a very old, outdated technology, and those car batteries have cap that can be turned and battery can be easily emptied. In the West, they don't make those Liquid Acid Car Batteries anymore, here in US, now they use only Solid State Car batteries, which have no caps. In Pakistan they need to introduce State State Car Batteries that don't require any Acid, and there should be no openings or caps which can be used to drain the Acid chemical from the batteries.
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Jun 17, 2016 03:56am
Purchase of acid should be by license only. It is a deadly weapon but people can buy like water. How come it cannot be banned. Acid mafia may be? Men have been abused domestically mentally for ages stuck between mother, sister and wife and nobody seems to care, nobody has sympathy for men. He is still the primary bread winner, even in Western society. He cannot even share his abuse due to men being strong taboo. But we all know he has been abused and nobody cares.
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Jun 17, 2016 05:56am
We must condemn this brutality and pray for the victim. The woman who committed this heinous crime should be prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent of law.
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