There was an overall 6.74% increase in reported case of violence against women in Pakistan as compared to last year. These are the reported cases but the actual figures must be high which were never reported. The number of cases reported for acid throwing in the year 2011 was 44 which were 29 in the year 2008. The cases appear higher since the year 2009, where 53 cases of acid throwing and 50 cases of stove burning were reported.
The incidence of acid throwing and stove burning is categorized as domestic violence in Pakistan. 'The domestic violence in Pakistan has been seen as a private and family matter and most of such cases are encompassed by the Qisas and Diyat ordinance of 1990 under which "privatization" of crimes has particularly damaging consequences in cases of intra-family violence including murder of a women (Bhatti., et all 2011). 'Acid attacks became illegal in Pakistan in 2010 when parliament passed the Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Bill, which can carry punishments of lifetime imprisonment. But the law is rarely enforced in rural areas, and acid attacks continue, even on the heels of the Oscar-winning documentary, "Saving Face," which featured a number of Pakistani acid attack victims' (Alex Pearlman 2012). The reported figures on domestic violence against women shows that there is not a visible difference in such incidence, which means that the state is not responding actively to stop these incidence and also the society is not changing their behaviour towards such crimes (Aurat Foundation, 2011).
Stove Burning incidence.
Over the past decades murderers attempted by stove burning has become more common indication of increased marital violence. Hundreds of women are being burn to death by their husbands and in-laws on the issue of dowry, shame and other marital issues. According to newspaper reports in the year 1999, about 201 Pakistani women were reported to have had injuries "while cooking" (UNICEF, 1999).
