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In June 2002, Mukhtar Mai's younger brother, Shaqoor, was accused by the Mastoi clan of committing some kind of indiscretion with one of their girls. The Mastoi clan kidnapped Shaqoor and assaulted him. (Later a conventional court found that the story against Shaqoor was fabricated to cover up the sexual attack against the boy himself. The three men who attacked him were imprisoned for sodomy. Their convictions still stand.) Shaqoor's family called for the police, who finally arrived and gained the release of Shaqoor, but the Mastoi were not satisfied. They refused a marriage deal and insisted on zina (adulterous sex) for zina. Mukhtar was gang raped by several Matsoi men, and then paraded half nude down the village's main street. Her next move should have been suicide, but she had nothing to lose. She didn't care if they killed her, so she pressed charges against her abusers, against the wishes of her family, the village, the government and even, to this day, her countrywomen. The case became an international cause célèbre. At the time, a young filmmaker, Mohammed Naqvi was shooting a film for the Discovery Times Channel called "Terror's Children." "I was in my home town of Karachi, following Afghan refugee children," Naqvi said. "This story broke out when she decided to go to a local reporter. Within days it was international news. "But she was a woman taking a stand. I was one of many writers who wanted to meet her and find a story. I didn't have any preconceptions. I wasn't sure where it was going but when I met her, it was really..." Naqvi faltered in his recitation. "She is an amazing person. She took such a bad situation and turned it into a positive one." Indeed after a lengthy battle with the Pakistan government, which tried to hush her up, her attackers were convicted and she was paid reparations by the government. (Her attackers have since been released). She also built her village's first two schools with her compensation money and now campaigns internationally for women's rights. In Pakistan, the laws have since been changed so that a woman who accuses someone of rape no longer has to produce four pious male witnesses who saw the actual act of rape. Naqvi, 28, spent four to five years making the documentary about Muhktar, called "Shame." Applauded and honored at screenings around the world, the emotional film touches nerves. Because they can relate, Naqvi said women in South Asia are particularly stunned by the story. It is their secret shame as well. "For any woman they are scared and embarrassed," Naqvi said. "Mukhtar is this amazing, strong woman. She actually didn't care. It was so awful she didn't care if she was killed. Initially her family was not behind her but eventually they supported her and went to court with her, and she had journalists and human rights activists with her. She still receives death threats from the other family." Hook ,line and sinker - can your son walk? lets hope he runs away form you- before you make him marry his Dad.

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Cultures who live by the rule of revenge and so forth, go he way of Rome and soon there is nothing left except their dust. Pakistan must pull itself up and march forward with pride and become a democracy. It means giving up nothing save Stoneage thinking. A lot of people inside and outside of PK are giving their support. I'm only a British pensioner, but I wish both the people and the Nation of PK every success in their new adventure. After a while you just get used to it. It's dead easy really.
Could you change your avatar name, please. It is disgusting & your questions will have more credibility, if you don't have such a slutty name. Thankyou.
INTERESTING E-MAIL MESSAGE PRICK WHAT YOU THINK BY INSULTING MY SON BECAUSE HE IS DISABLED I AM GONNA BACK OF FROM A USELESS PIECE OF CRAP LIKE YOU. RASCIST LITTLE TURD
that's sharia law for you.
It will take generations for the culture to change in Pakistan. For God sake, we are in the 21st century and they are still living under this oppressive, retrograde lifestyle. No wonder we have so many problems in the U.K. Thw world's gone mad.
guru nanak is a dikhed