Summary Yasmeen received minor burns in the attack
LAHORE (Web Desk) – Unknown suspects attacked a 29-year-old woman with acid in Nawab Town area of Lahore on Friday morning, Dunya News reported.
The victim identified as Yasmeen received minor injuries and she was shifted to Jinnah Hospital for treatment.
According to police, there was some dispute between the woman and her husband, however, the case is being investigated at the moment.
The horrific crime, which disfigures and often blinds its overwhelmingly female victims, has long been used to settle personal or family scores with hundreds of cases reported every year in Pakistan.
The incident comes few weeks after the Punjab Assembly passed the Women Protection Bill, giving an unprecedented protection to female victims of violence.
The new law criminalises all forms of violence against women, whether domestic, psychological or sexual, and calls for the creation of a toll-free abuse reporting hot line and the establishment of shelters.
Pakistan, home to roughly 190 million people, sees thousands of cases of violence against women every year, from rape and acid attacks to sexual assault, kidnappings and so-called "honour killings".
In 2013, more than 5,800 cases of violence against women were reported in Punjab alone, the province where law was passed, according to the Aurat Foundation, a women s rights advocacy group.
Those cases represented 74 percent of the national total that year, the latest for which data is available.
