Acid Attacks are prevalent in Pakistan - mostly carried out by
MUSLIM MEN. Has any CHRISTIAN EVER done this? I doubt it.

With about 200 acid attacks reported annually, Pakistan has a reputation for being one of the deadliest countries for acid attacks. Most of the victims are women. 

“Some of the reasons women have been subjected to acid attacks include rejecting marriage proposals, giving birth to daughters instead of sons, and not bringing enough dowry to their in-laws’ houses,” said Masarrat Misbah, a Pakistani philanthropist and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Smile Again Foundation, a national organization that provides medical care and covers educational and vocational training courses for acid attack survivors.

Noreen Jabbar, 37, is one of more than 750 acid attack survivors registered with the Smile Again Foundation. She lives in Lahore with her three daughters and operates a beauty salon from her family home. Ten years ago, Jabbar was attacked with acid by her ex-husband. “It had been three months since the divorce,” she said. “We had no communication since my family had stopped him from coming over."

“It was seven in the morning when I was dropping my daughters at school. He came from behind, and when I turned my head around, I saw him with a bottle in his hand,” Jabbar recalled. “I thought it could be acid since he had already threatened me with it. But before I could do anything, he immediately threw it at my face. The entire side got burned. Some of it also got into my eye.”

Leading up to the divorce, Jabbar’s husband had exhibited violent tendencies toward her and her daughters. “I was the single breadwinner at home and made a living by sewing clothes. We started having fights because we could not make ends meet,” Jabbar said. As their financial situation worsened, he became increasingly aggressive, blaming her for giving birth to daughters and blaming them for bringing ill fortune to their house.

“Then one day, he called my brother and told him he was divorcing me,” said Jabbar, who then moved into her parents’ house with her daughters. However, her ex-husband started harassing her and demanding that she return to him. “My brother told him that, now that the divorce had happened, I would not go back to his house,” Jabbar said. In turn, he threatened to disfigure her face with acid so that no other man would be willing to marry her.

Following the attack, Jabbar, like Raheem, permanently lost one of her eyes. She was rushed to the hospital after bystanders came to her aid in response to her daughters' screams. “My eldest daughter put her hand on my face to see what happened and burned her own hand in the process,” Jabbar said.

At the hospital, Jabbar waited for medical attention for five hours until reporters arrived on the scene. “I was shaking like a fish out of water because of the pain,” Jabbar said. “Then there was some ruckus that the media had arrived.” Doctors then gave her an injection to ease the pain, and she was kept in the hospital for 15 days before she was released.