Pakistani woman arrested over acid attack on boyfriend
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A doctor cares for the man who suffered life-threatening injuries from an acid attack. (Sky News)
A Pakistani woman has been arrested after allegedly attacking a man with acid because he refused to marry her.
Monil Mai, 32, wanted to marry her boyfriend Sadaqat Ali so that she could divorce her husband, a Pakistani police official told Sky News.
Mai and Ali, both of whom are married, had been having an affair for several years, according to local news reports.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Ali remains in the hospital with life-threatening injuries, Sky News reported.
Acid attacks and other so-called honor crimes against women are not unusual in Pakistan, but women are rarely the perpetrators.
"It is a rare incident in which a woman has been accused of throwing acid on a man," Zohra Yusuf, who heads the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, told Sky News.
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