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Acid attacks and rape: growing threat to women who oppose traditional order
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Contributed by World News
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Female MPs speak out as conditions worsen and Islamists gain respectability Kabul's head of education, Naziba Norstani, visits the 17-year-old victim of acid attack. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters They were walking to school in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a group of teenage girls discussing a test they had coming up, when two men on a motorcycle sprayed them with a strange liquid. Within seconds a painful tingling began, and there was an unusual smell as the skin of 16-year-old Atifa Biba began to burn. Her friend rushed over to help her, struggling to wipe the liquid away, when she too was showered with acid. She covered her face, crying out for help as they sprayed her again,...
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