Now nearly blind, Saira is helped into her fathers Rickshaw from their home in a suburb of Lahore. He will drive her to the beauty palour for her work. He spends 4 hrs a day driving her to work, returning home, then again picking her up in the evening. 21 yr old Saira Liaqat's face was destroyed in 2003 by her soon to be husband who threw acid over her. Her punishment was for refusing to leave her parents home and go with him to his house..Saira's face has been partially reconstructed by...
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Now nearly blind, Saira is helped into her fathers Rickshaw from their home in a suburb of Lahore. He will drive her to the beauty palour for her work. He spends 4 hrs a day driving her to work, returning home, then again picking her up in the evening. 21 yr old Saira Liaqat's face was destroyed in 2003 by her soon to be husband who threw acid over her. Her punishment was for refusing to leave her parents home and go with him to his house..Saira's face has been partially reconstructed by doctors funded by a Lahore based charity called Smile Again. Each year across pakistan thousands of women have acid thrown over them by men.
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