May 27,2007 MULTAN -
Pakistan’s internationally known gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai yesterday said she has resigned as head of a government centre for women in distress.
Mai said that her decision was in protest at a move to replace her with a woman from the ruling party at the crisis centre in her village of Mirwala in Punjab province.
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Apr 11,2007 Lahore -
Gangrape victim Mukhtar Mai, who became a voice against women's abuse in the highly male dominated conservative society in rural Pakistan has earned many enemies, amongst them feudal lords and even government officials, according to noted American columnist Nicholas Kristof.
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Apr 26,2006 Washington -
Mukhtar Mai, who is here to receive a number of awards, was hosted at a
well-attended reception at the Pakistan embassy on Monday evening.
“My slogan is to end oppression through education,” Mai said in brief
remarks on the occasion. She thanked the embassy, particularly Ambassador
Jehangir Karamat, for inviting her. She recited two lines from a poem,
which said that dark clouds never remain there forever and the day will
dawn when women - mothers and sisters - would be accorded their due place
in society.
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Mar 12,2006 Pakistan -
Five thousand women, led in part by rape victim and campaigner
Mukhtar Mai, protested in Pakistan for equal rights.
Jan 22,2006 New York -
An interview with Mukhtar Mai in the United Nations scheduled for Friday night has been cancelled because of pressure from Pakistan's government, according to the New York Times.
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Nov 28,2005 Lahore -
Devoting Life to Oppressed Women and Education
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Oct 25,2005 Pakistan -
Clinton to introduce Mukhtar Mai in US
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Sep 7,2005 SouthAsia (BBC) -
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has said his country should not be singled out for its treatment of women.
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His comments came while addressing a conference on violence against women
in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
But two of Pakistan's leading women's rights groups have declined to
participate in the meeting.
The conference comes in the same week as two separate cases of women
alleging that they were raped by police officers in Pakistan.
Representatives of the AGHS and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan say
they see no point in being part of what they describe as "a farcical
event".
The BBC's Aamer Ahmed Khan in Karachi says both groups have incurred the
displeasure of the government for their role in helping bring attention to
a series of recent rape cases.
President Musharraf lashed out at rights groups for their role in
highlighting the cases outside the country.
"Do it in Pakistan and I am with you. But don't do it abroad; I am not with
you," the Associated Press quoted him as saying.
Dozens of delegates from around the world are attending the two-day event
aimed at addressing the treatment of women in Pakistan and also to bring
together those who work with victims of violence.
"Pakistan must not be demonised and singled out as being the only country
having this problem... that is not the reality," AFP quoted the president
as saying.
Pakistan recently came under intense international criticism for preventing
a high-profile rape victim from attending a conference in the United
States.
Mukhtar Mai, 33, was raped in 2002, allegedly on the order of a village
council, in a case that received worldwide publicity.
The men who were convicted of raping her were released this March, but then
ordered back to jail while the Supreme Court hears her appeal against their
release.
Another case which attracted widespread attention in Pakistan is that of a
woman who alleged that a senior police officer ordered her rape.
The Pakistani government has announced an inquiry into her allegations, but
she has said that until the media highlighted her case the authorities did
nothing to help her.
In another case this week, a woman accused four policemen of gang-raping
her in Rawalpindi. One officer has been arrested and the other three are
missing.
Human rights groups say cases like these are just the tip of the iceberg.
They say most women never come forward to say they have been victims of
rape or violence and those that do often do not even see their cases going
to court.
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June 29,2005 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -
Pakistan wants to ensure gang-rape victim Mukhtaran Mai finds justice, President Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday, as he invited women from around the world to come and tell of their abuse and recommend solutions.
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June 26,2005 BBC -
Armed men have attacked and burned a girls' school in Afghanistan
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June 24,2005 ISLAMABAD -
Rice Snubs Musharraf Over Mukhtar Mai Episode
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June 18,2005 WASHINGTON -
Mukhtar Mai to be allowed to travel to US
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June 17,2005 ISLAMABAD -
Pakistan on Wednesday lifted a travel ban on a well-known rape victim, days after her name was placed on a list of people barred from leaving the country.
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June 16,2005 WASHINGTON -
US outraged at Mukhtar Mai's suppression
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June 15,2005 ISLAMABAD -
Karamat scuttled Pakistan gang rape victim's Amnesty visit
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June 13,2005 RAWALPINDI -
Airports put on alert to stop gang-rape victim from travelling
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June 11,2005 BBC -
The victim of a notorious Pakistan gang rape says she is being
prevented from moving freely or leaving the country.
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June 10,2005 New Zealand -
Mai place under house arrest
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May 20, 2005 ADNAN R. KHAN -
Treated like property, Pakistani women fight futilely against 'honour crimes'
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May 16, 2005 ISLAMABAD -
Mukhtar Mai who was allegedly gang-raped three years ago, will have to wait for another four months in her pursuit of justice because there is no chance of an early hearing for her in the Supreme Court.
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Mar 29, 2005 MD MALIK -
The authorities have re-arrested four accused in the Mukhtar Mai rape case on the directives of President General Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz after the victim met the PM for seeking justice in the case.
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Mar 3, 2005 BBC -
Five men sentenced to death in a high-profile gang-rape case in
the Pakistani province of Punjab have been acquitted on appeal.
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Aug 24, 2002 MULTAN -
The Dera Ghazi Khan anti-terrorism court will give
its verdict on the Meerwala gang-rape case on Aug 27 as both
prosecution and defence concluded their arguments.
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June, 2002 PAKISTAN -
In June 2002, 30-year-old Mukhtar Mai was gang-raped on the orders of a council of tribal elders from her village of Meerwala, Pakistan.
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Visit Muktar Mai's blog
(see also Mukhtar Mai at Wikipedia)
"I hope to make education more readily available to girls, to teach
them that no woman should ever go through what happened to me,
and I eventually hope to open more school branches in this area of
Pakistan. I need your support to kill illiteracy and to help make
tomorrow's women stronger. This is my goal in life."
"Actually, the women of my area are unaware of their rights. Yes, some
women are afraid to empathise with me. They are afraid of men, conservative
social values and the male dominated society. "
"In our school, we teach girls the regular syllabus as well as special
chapters on women's rights, human rights and women empowerment.
--- Mukhtar Mai
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