A Pakistani girl, dancing has ceased the struggle for life by an 'horrible' acid attack. She has committed suicide a decade after it was badly disfigured face.
Fakhra Yunus, 33, jumped to her death from a sixth floor building in Rome 12 years after the acid attack that left her looking said 'not human'.
At the time of the attack in May 2000, her ex-husband Bilal Khar was the man accused of breaking into the house of his mother and poured acid on her face while she slept with her son Younus.
The attack, which took place in front of then Younus five year old son, left her unable to breathe and fighting for life.
Her nose was almost completely melted and has since been the subject of 39 separate surgical procedures to repair her disfigured face in the last decade.
The terrible attack also burned the hair, lips fused, blinded in one eye, destroyed his left ear and melted her breasts.
After being transferred to a hospital, said, "My face is a prison for me," while her distraught young son, said at the time, 'This is not my mother.
The mother of one moved to Italy after the incident and was living in Rome and while continuing with her treatment.
However, on March 17, she committed suicide after leaving a message saying it was because of the silence of the law on the atrocities and the insensitivity of the Pakistani rulers.
Bilal Khar was arrested in 2002 and charged with attempted murder after the attack, only to be released on bail after five months.
Khar, a former parliamentarian and son of a wealthy Pakistani governor, was finally acquitted of the attack, although many believe he would have used his family connections to escape conviction.
After the tragic suicide Younus emerged earlier this month, Khar continued to deny having any part in the attack - claiming in a television interview a different man with the same name that had carried out the crime.
Khar said his former wife committed suicide because she did not have enough money, not because of his terrible wounds.
More than 8,500 acid attacks, forced marriages and other forms of violence against women were reported in Pakistan in 2011, according to the Aurat Foundation, an organization of women's rights.
Pakistan's government introduced new law. Acid attacks and criminalization of the year indicating that condemned attacks serve at least 14 years in prison.
Tehmina Durrani, the former wife of Bilal Khar's father, had become an advocate for Younus after the attack, saying the victim of acid attack was committed to bring her attacker to justice when she had recovered.
Durrani said, "She said," When I return, I will reopen the case, and I'm going to fight, "and she was a fighter."
Durrani said the case Younus' should be a reminder that the Pakistani government must do more to prevent acid attacks and other violence against women and assist victims.
"I think this country should be very ashamed that a foreign country, assumed responsibility for a Pakistani for 13 years because they could give nothing, not justice, not security," said Durrani.
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