"Activists believe that the prevalence of violence against women is far higher than the over 8,000 cases that are reported and compiled in the annual reports of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Acid attacks are relatively few, averaging around 30 a year in a country of approximately 170 million. But the devastation they cause is disproportionately immense – New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called it “a personal form of terrorism”. Survivors whose faces have been literally melted away by acid describe feeling neither dead nor alive."
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