She underwent 39 surgeries during a year period. Younus was a dancer in a red-light district in Pakistan, [2] when she met her future husband, Bilal Khar, the son of Ghulam Mustafa Khar , who himself is a former Governor and Chief Minister of Pakistan's largest province, Punjab. They were married for three years, with Younus eventually leaving him after she claimed he physically and verbally abused her. She further claimed that he later visited her in May and poured acid on her, in the presence of her 5-year-old son from a different man. Khar claimed that the attacker was someone else with his name. He was acquitted of all charges in the incident.

It is the world's fifth-most populous country with a population exceeding It is the 33rd-largest country by area, spanning , square kilometres , square miles. Pakistan has a 1,kilometre mile coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east , Afghanistan to the west , Iran to the southwest , and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.

By Jackie Salo. A 7-year-old Pakistani girl was allegedly beaten to death after she was blamed for letting a pet parrot escape while working as a maid, according to a report. Siddiqui kicked the young girl in the lower abdomen in a blow that proved fatal, the officer told the AFP.

Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy, has released two photographs taken in exile, as she prepares for the launch of her autobiography on Wednesday. The former farm labourer, whose case became one of the most high-profile human rights campaigns in the world, was freed last year and flew to Canada, where she was reunited with her family. They are all believed to be living under assumed identities, at a secret location, as they still receive death threats from extremists. Bibi was originally sentenced to death on flimsy evidence in after being accused of blasphemy in a dispute over a cup of water. As her appeal languished in the Pakistani judicial system, she won the support of Pope Francis and human rights organisations around the world.