Domestic Voilence in Pakistan

Emilio Morenatti

Associated Press

Saira Liaqat, 26, poses for the camera as she holds a portrait of herself before being burnt, at her home in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 9, 2008. When she was fifteen, Saira was married to a relative who would later attack her with acid after insistently demanding her to live with him, although the families had agreed she wouldn't join him until she finished school. Saira has undergone plastic surgery 9 times to try to recover from her scars.

Emilio Morenatti, "Domestic Voilence in Pakistan," in POYi Archive, Item #42845, http://archive.poy.org/index.php/items/show/42845 (accessed June 15, 2025).