Acid on a Doctor's Face: What the Quetta Attack Says About Us
Opinion & Voice She Was On Duty. No Place Was Safe. The acid attack on Dr. Mahnoor Nasir at Civil Hospital Quetta — and what it says about us as a society. June 7, 2026 There are some news stories that stop you mid-breath. That make you put your phone down and just sit with the weight of what you've read. For me, this was one of them. A young woman. A doctor. Serving patients on a routine duty shift inside one of Pakistan's largest public hospitals. And in the middle of that ordinary, noble day — someone walked up to her door, knocked, and threw acid on her face and body when she answered. Her name is Dr. Mahnoor Nasir . A postgraduate trainee in general surgery at Sandeman Provincial Hospital, Quetta. She had dedicated years of her life to medicine — to healing others. And she was attacked, not on a dark street, not in an alley — but inside a hospital ward where she was supposed to be safe. "If a woman is not safe in a hospital, in her workplace, in a place built to...
