Acid thrown by girl on guy's face is not a funny story

Recently the news of "Acid thrown by Girl named Nabeela on her boy friend Mohsin face in Faisalabad" is shocking for every one across Pakistan.It is Pakistan's first case of this nature which came on media.Same type of case were seen in Indian Punjab Batala where a jilted girl allegedly threw acid on the private parts of her boy friend after he refused to marry her in Kahnuwan road area of Gurdaspur district.Jagdish Kumar, who was having an affair with Dalbir Kaur of the same area, was supposed to get married.When Jagdish went to Dalbir's house she allegedly threw acid on his private parts injuring him seriously. Recently a Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has won Oscar award for making a film on issues of acid thrown by man...

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Who is Sharmeen Obiad Chinoy? Wikipedia

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (born 1978) is an internationally renowned Emmy and Oscar award winning Pakistani journalist and documentarian. She won an Emmy for her documentary, Pakistan: Children of the Taliban in 2010.[1][2] She is also the first non-American to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.[2] .[3] On 26 February 2012 Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won an Oscar for her documentary Saving Face. She is the first Pakistani to win the prestigious award.[4] Early lifeSharmeen Obaid was born in Karachi to an Urdu speaking family, and attended the Karachi Grammar School.[5] Sharmeen graduated from Smith College with a bachelor of arts in economics and government and then went to complete two master's degrees from Stanford University in International...

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Pakistani Journalist & film maker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy wins Oscar Award

Los Angeles: In the 84 years history of the Oscar Award  Pakistani film maker "Sharmeen Obiad Chinoy" becomes 1st Pakistani to get honored with the award for her documentary film “Saving Face”. Film was in the “documentary, short film” category was nominated for the Oscar nominations to earn. In the 84 history of the Oscar Award, she is the first Pakistani to have received the national award. Obaid, who has directed several documentaries, won an Emmy award in 2010 for her documentary Pakistan: Children of the Taliban. Saving face, the Karachi-based filmmaker who has co-directed by Daniel Junge, describes the life of a British Pakistani surgeon who donates his time to heal acid victims in Pakistan. The film is set to be released in...

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