Pakistan's Dirty Linen - Pakistan

Oct 2005
After a tribal court ordered her to be gang raped, Mukhtar Mai defied centuries of tradition by speaking out. But her campaign for women's rights has provoked a political storm in Pakistan.

By taking her case to the Supreme Court and the international press, Mukhtar Mai highlighted the plight of women in Pakistan. "Where was the State when a woman was being raped in broad daylight?" demands Asma Jahangir, chair of the HRC. President Pervez Musharraf is angry about the way her case has placed Pakistan in the global spotlight. "I've said it over and over again. Do not wash your dirty linen outside," he warned. He's gone to extreme lengths to silence Mai and personally ordered the confiscation of her passport. Her village was also given a school, roads, electricity and water in an attempt to pacify her. But the only thing Mukhtar Mai wants is justice.

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[straightliner15]

@samueldavs LOL my dear,u said welcome to d world of pakistan right?so m replt was welcomed where.....(my previous comment) happens? metaphor!!

[samueldavs]

@straightliner15

I still don't get it... But I' implying this is very very common in Paksitan

[straightliner15]

@samueldavs u told welocome to the world of pakiistan..!! so i asked u.....!!!

[samueldavs]

@straightliner15

are u asking me something or telling me.../lost

[straightliner15]

@PakistanFunClub where women are raped routinely?? where red light street is just besides mosques??where people are dying of starvation??where there is no food??where men marry 2women??where women and children are slaves??where majority people are uneducated?? independace protest in baloch and sindhia??where sunnis are killing shias?u r happy in US than in pakistan and u protest against our strikes which kill ur terrorist??where girls education is against islam??this is pakistan..welcomed indeed

[straightliner15]

@samueldavs where women are raped routinely?? where red light street is just besides mosques??where people are dying of starvation??where there is no food??where men marry 2women??where women and children are slaves??where majority people are uneducated?? independace protest in baloch and sindhia??where sunnis are killing shias?u r happy in US than in pakistan and u protest against our strikes which kill ur terrorist??where girls education is against islam??this is pakistan..welcomed indeed

[straightliner15]

poor pakistan.....!!

[westernise]

Pakistan is merely paying lip service to the plight of womens right. It will take a revolution to reform the chauvinistic mindset.

[mianmitthu]

This case now closed.

[akmal0743]

Mukhtar Mae Shame for pakistan.............y media had chosen only this women around the globe .....are all the women around the globe do enjoying full rights???/