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BALOCHISTAN: Gunmen on a motorcycle attacked a woman by throwing acid on her in the Khuzdar district of Balochistan on Tuesday, police said.
Qadir Bakhsh Qambrani, a senior police official, told Dawn.com that two gunmen on a motorcycle flung acid on Bilquis, resident of Bazgir Khuzdar, and fled away.
She was shifted to civil hospital Khuzdar in an injured condition.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Dozens of people, mostly women, but also men and children, are disfigured every year by one of the most brutal forms of domestic violence in a country where women are often treated as second-class citizens.Few have faith in the Pakistani courts, but campaigners say the conviction rate for acid attacks has tripled since tough new penalties were signed into law in late 2011, which introduced a minimum sentence of 14 years in jail and a fine of one million rupees ($10,000) for those found guilty of throwing acid.
