"Fakhra Younas went under the surgeon’s knife 38 times, hoping
to repair the gruesome damage inflicted by a vengeful Pakistani
man who had doused her face in acid a decade earlier, virtually
melting her mouth, nose and ears… the acid fused her lips, melted
her breasts and destroyed one eye.
"On March 17, 2012, after a decade of pining for Pakistan, a country
she loved even though its justice system had failed her terribly, Ms. Younas
climbed to the sixth-floor balcony of her apartment building in the
southern suburbs of Rome and jumped. She was reported to be 33 years old.
