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Pakistani dancer and acid attack victim

Fakhra Younus (Urdu: فاخرہ یونس; 1979 – 17 March 2012) was a Pakistani woman who was the victim of an acid attack, which severely injured her face.

She underwent 39 surgeries during a 10-year period.^[1] She died by suicide at age 33.

Rome.

The film was inspired from the life of acid victim Fakhra Younus, who died by suicide in Saving Face.

Fakhra Younus (Urdu: فاخرہ یونس; – 17 March ) was a Pakistani woman who was the victim of an acid attack, which severely injured her face.

Directors for the Oscar-winning documentary Saving Face responded, on Thursday, to claims made by acid-attack survivors over the airing of the film in Pakistan.

Wafa holds a Bachelor's degree in Interior Design from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Biography

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 2000 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. Younus was sent to Rome, Italy, for treatment by Tehmina