What a savage act ! So heart-breaking !
How come there was no coverage by media of this affair while the victim suffered for 12 years.
Did she have to kill herself to be noticed by the media.
Will there ever be justice ?
And if yes, then what good will it do for her now ?
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This is sad. I couldn't watch it. :(
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this is another incidence of our non existent justice system.
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^^^ Justice system exist, but its only for poor. Rich a$$holes like this guy can get away with murder and they often do.
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Various Pakistani governments have been writing off loans given to big industrialists (to the tune of billions of rupees) and politicians for buying their loyalties, but the newspapers have details of defaulters of small amount of loans (a few thousands). The rich defaulters roam free whereas the poor defaulters are put under bars and their properties confiscated.
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SAD... indeed.
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Like father, like son.
Wonder why is this coward these days?!
It would be great if we post whatever we find about who Bilal Khar.
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Wow, he was out on the bail of mere 200,000 for almost killing a woman?!
The power of feudals.
Khar used his political influence to evade arrest and absconded, while Yunus’s family faced difficulty in registering an FIR against him.
On October 31, 2002, Khar was eventually arrested, but released in 2003 on Rs 200,000 bail.
More on how all witnesses changed their statements in the court to resulting in Bilal Khar getting free.
http://archives.dawn.com/2003/12/17/local5.htm
The court exonerated him as the prosecution could not bring on record any incriminating evidence. The prosecution had suffered a major blow during the trial when the complainant and Irfan Malik, appearing as prosecution witnesses, deposed that the defendant was not the man who had thrown acid.
The district attorney, Abdur Rehman Baloch, vehemently opposed the acquittal application and submitted that it was premature to decide the case as medico-legal officers and other prosecution witnesses were yet to be examined.
He submitted that the victim woman was the prime witness for the prosecution and her deposition was yet to be recorded.
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A thread in paklinks from 2001 about this incident in Pakistan Affairs.
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/pakistan-affairs/22336-powerful-feudal-lord-of-punjab-disfigures-wifes-face-with-acid-still-remains-free.html
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Here is the image of Bilal Khar. You need to pay respect to him because he is our former Member of Provincial Assembly.
Very nice people in our assemblies indeed.
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Article by Tehmina Durrani, Ex wife of Khar…
The life and death of an acid victim - The News
Fakhra is not a new tragedy..she was always a tragedy. Her life was a parched stretch of hard rock on which nothing bloomed. Her country of birth gave her nothing at all. Her environment of birth condemned her to social unacceptability and disrespect. She was born without any right of choice.
At the young age of 22 an acid attack left her only marginally alive .her horrific mutilation disfigured her so completely that she was now confronted by open disgust and contempt by everyone who set eyes on her in Pakistan. She also became a liability to her own family. for whom she was once a source of income.
**I have met many acid victims. never have I seen one as completely disfigured as Fakhra. She had not just become faceless; her body had also melted to the bone.Despite her stark and hopeless condition, the government of the Islamic Republic Of Pakistan was not in the least God fearing. She was provided nothing..but disdain..and trashed.
At just one single request.a foreign country, Italy, immediately and urgently, arranged for everything Fakhra, and her five-year-old son Nauman required. Despite her extremely disturbing ‘image’, the gracious people of Italy never ever made her feel she was any different to any one of them! In the beautiful city of Rome, Fakhra was able to walk the streets, laze in the parks, and enter a shop or a restaurant in the most prestigious of places, without an iota of embarrassment. In fact every waiter served her more respectfully than he did any other, and every person who looked her way smiled and nodded with respect!
Were the catholic people practicing Christ’s exemplary kindness towards lepers? And were we, the followers of the great religion of Islam, and The Last Prophet (pbuh), still living in the times of ‘Jahalia?’**
**Despite the fact that medical insurance is extremely costly for the Italian citizen,the Italian government placed Fakhra under the exclusive supervision of one of the most highly reputed reconstructive surgeons of that country. She underwent 38 major surgeries in twelve years! Professor Charvelli’s solemn comment on hearing of the death of his incredible patient was: “I tried to mend her physical scars. but was unable to heal her soul.”
Fakhra was taught to speak fluent Italian, had extensive counseling and assistance from Italy’s social services. But much as she adjusted very well among a foreign people, acquired some semblance of existence, was provided a home from which no one could throw her out. A salary from the Italian taxpayers money.. a school with children from normal Italian families for her son.. There was not a single day that Fakhra did not pine for Pakistan.
“If I don’t get back in my lifetime,promise to take my dead body home,” were words that speak volumes for her capacity to forgive, and her oceanic generosity of spirit..It also throws a high voltage spotlight on the smallness of ‘ours’.
**
Fakhra was jubiliant on the day parliament passed the law of life imprisonment against acid terrorism.She celebrated the Punjab government’s vow to get that law implemented in letter and spirit on International Woman’s Day.She was thrilled when the documentary ‘Saving face’ won an Oscar award.but she also felt forgotten. As if this pioneering face of acid violence had achieved her life’s purpose. After 13 years and 38 major surgeries, she gave up pretending to be alive.
The courage it took to reject life; was not in the least comparable to the courage it had taken for her to live it. But then, Fakhra Yunas was not just an acid victim.She was a warrior. Despite the fact that the vehicle that contained the spirit of God was so deeply burnt that it had practically melted; that powerful spirit had remained inexplicably and unfathomably inextinguishable.she breathed.inhaled and exhaled that divine breath. Her courage in these last thirteen years will bare witness that she was not so weak as to commit suicide.
Her time had come.
The angel of death had come.
Otherwise, her spirit was too powerful to be put out. It was not a small flickering flame.
Never have I known a human being who has shown more spunk and grit, had such a high threshold of pain, been more accepting of life in any way and any form.and also been jubilant and excited by the smallest joys that came her way.** Fakhra died thirteen years ago.
Fakhra died again to remind the world that she had lived.
Allah realised her dream to return to Pakistan. in the only way it was possible for one such as her to be here. among us, the people of this country. under the callous system that rules the ‘so-called’ Islamic Republic Of Pakistan.
Her countrymen should at least now open their hearts and give her the love and respect she so deserves.even though it shall now be hers anyway.Mother earth will receive Fakhra with open arms. And I guess that is what she really loved about Pakistan. the earth of this country.
**
**We, the people of Pakistan should forever remain obliged to Italy, the country, and to itsr incredible people. They carried a responsibility that was ours, a duty that we shirked from..Italy and her people carried our burden on her own shoulders without any sign of tiring out. Indeed it carried the burden of humanity with the spirit of humanitarianism which is the basis of all religions.
We have failed God and Fakhra..but we can still learn a fundamental lesson from this glaring and shameful comparison. **With profound gratitude to Signor Maritsi of St Angelica Industries, and to Arsilia who became a second mother to Nauman. To Professor Charvelli for his untiring persistence to give Fakhra renewed hope every time she saw an improvement in her appearance. and especially to Clarice Felli, President of Smile Again Italy, (which annulled the agreement that associated the mother body with Musarat Misbah’s NGO Smile Again-Pakistan.) Under Clarice Felli’s care, Fakhra spent some of the happiest times of her life..Clarice was a lady Fakhra loved dearly, a lady who loved her back as much if not more.
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I don't usually support the idea of vigilante justice, but I wouldn't be sad reading this sob obituary.
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akchishti @akchishti
Bilal Khar the acid thrower lives in Multan with his fifth wife. Sad how our state protects the weak in Pakistan.
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I have heard that Bilal Khar appeared on Geo a short time ago and he alleged that the character of Fakhira was loose, for a minute lets believe him, still did he have any reason for attacking her with acid? He could have simply divorced her.
As far as character is concerned, we can amply judge that by the number of marriages he has had todate.
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Yeah, he was on GEO’s program **Lekin **an hour or so ago. 
Surprisingly no one has the guts to even arrest this guy!
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I have heard that Bilal Khar appeared on Geo a short time ago and he alleged that the character of Fakhira was loose,
And hence she deserved to be burnt with acid?! It was not her fault that she was born and raised in a bad environment.
Seriously, people like him deserve to be punished to death.
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Bilal Khar denies acid throwing incident - The News
KOT ADDU: Former Punjab MPA, Bilal Khar has denied that he threw acid at his former wife Fakhra Yunus 12 years ago.Appearing on Geo News program ‘Lekin’ Bilal Khar said that Fakhra lived with him for four months after the acid attack.
During this time Bilal Khar claimed that Fakhra refused to tell him who had attacked her.“She committed suicide because promises committed to her by certain people were not fulfilled,” Khar said.
I think he is talking about Tehmeena Durrani.
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I coud not bear looking at her sad figure.May Allah SWT grant her the highest place in Jannat.
I have heard that Bilal Khar the criminal who threw acid on Fakhra Yunus is the 1st cousin of our foreign minister Hina 'Birkin Bag' Khar. Is that true? Can anybody verify that?
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If he claims he didn't do it then who did ?
Why is it so hard to establish who did ?
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I think its about time the imams and parents of sons and leaders started to teach men true islam, which clearly states that even making a woman cry can bring the wrath of Allah subhana watala and that the prophet pbuh never hit any of his wives or daughters.
Its true what they say: evil prevails when good men stay silent. And to think how these same men that do these horrific abuses towards women are the same ones committing zina regularly and doing other unislamic acts and are free to roam the streets to marry and abuse others daughters, sisters, mothers etc... over and over again.
These men must be held accountable or all will be held accountable for not stopping them on the day of judgement. I know suicide is a major sin, but god will no doubt be just with this woman and inshallah forgive her for her desperation as none of us can imagine the pain she lived with daily. :(