Mukhtar Mai's December 11th Fundraiser in Sacramento

Mukhtar Mai has arrived in the US and is

happily present in Arizona.

We hope to receive her here in Sacramento, California

on Saturday.

Ras

BTW -- how the hell a retired Lt Gen Hamid Nawaz -- became the 'caretaker' Interior Minister of a supposedly non partisan impartial 'undertaker' of a 'free fair and transparent" transtional government?

Can the Qurashi guy who acts like an MP (Military Pimp) for Musharraf explain this kind of undertaking?

Re #31, Shah Saab, were you amongst those honorable men? The more you talk, the stupider you sound. I mean it in all sincerity.

#34 gues who is the interior minister? musharraf's lawyer, now on a Pakistan-paid trip to the US to go around trying to sell musharraf by rambling on with the same stupid lies (e.g. that Nov. 3 was not about the CJ, but about getting the terrorists) that only a moron would think anyone other than a moron would believe.

Re: # 35

kulharee

Now you have turned to me becoming 'sincerely' personal as though I have fukked your... Excuse me I am not that stupid as you all MM pimps are.

Re: # 37
Excuse me!

A correction in my previous post:

Please read ' honoured your sister' in place of 'fukked'.

Re # #7, 38, My Dear Tamasha Saab – read this news and suck on it. Hope it makes you feel better about your miserable little piece of shyt life. Enjoy the article, and share it with your sisters as well. Thanks.

Here is the link in case: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\12\11\story_11-12-2007_pg7_7



Mukhtar Mai called the Rosa Parks of Pakistan

* Mai visits US to raise money for her school, clinic and women’s shelter

By Khalid Hasan

WASHINGTON: Mukhtar Mai, who has become quite a cult figure here, was honoured with a standing ovation at a well-attended event in Sacramento, California, on Sunday.

Mai, a local newspaper said, had “brought her message of hope and courage” to the city. She spoke to a mixed religious gathering, describing how she had opened the first school in her village and challenged a feudal system that had imposed tribal justice for centuries.

She is in the US to raise money for her school, a clinic and a women’s shelter now operating out of her home. “My motto is, injustice should be fought with knowledge,” she told her audience, speaking in Urdu. “Sometimes men forget there are women’s rights,” she added. She told the newspaper Sacramento Bee, “I’d never heard of school; in my village there never was a school. The first school I went to was my own. I’m still in fifth grade. I can read Urdu with difficulty.” Her school now educates 700 girls and 300 boys, ages 4-13. She said that she had not yet forgiven her attackers. “I asked that their kids come to my school, because illiteracy is what caused this,” she said, adding that five of their sons now attend, “but their daughters are not coming”.

Pakistani-American journalist Ras Siddiqui said while some Pakistani Americans “see Mai as airing our dirty laundry in public – this incident doesn’t represent normal Pakistani life – most applaud this brave woman from rural Pakistan promoting education and women’s empowerment after herself being a victim of the worst kind of abuse”. Siddiqui noted that despite all the attention focused on religious extremists in Pakistan, “it was the village imam who first spoke up in defence of Mukhtar after she was attacked. But it was Mai herself who turned the tables on her attackers”.

Mai is due to sign her book, ‘In The Name of Honor’, at a major bookstore before attending a fundraiser at a five-star hotel.