Mukhtar Mai's December 11th Fundraiser in Sacramento

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.

Re: # 37
Excuse me!

A correction in my previous post:

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

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.

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

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?

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

Re: # 28

"ISLAMABAD: The government will release Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, Advocate Ali Ahmed Kurd, Justice (r) Tariq Mehmood and other detainees in the next 72 hours, caretaker Interior Minister Lt Gen (r) Hamid Nawaz said on Wednesday."

Thank you Mrs. Patterson for making the Rottenwiler lick his own vomit.

Re: # 29

Arjun

"Why are you fundraising for a woman who, to quote the new Paki president and owner of a spanking new learjet, got herself raped to make a million $$ and get a canadian visa?"

And got honoured too (vide Tahmed32 at #19). What a win-win-win position it is! Is it not intriguing that her's is entirely a one-sided show as her alleged rapists (potentially all men can be accused of rape) are silent and deprived of gender sympathy for being accused of having been 'dishonoured' for executing the order of the Meerwala Punchayat to honour MM by raping her because her brother had 'honoured' the 'rapists'' sister. It all looks so bizarre to me.

For those interested

my email address is

rsiddiqui@surewest.net

Ras

Why are you fundraising for a woman who, to quote the new Paki president and owner of a spanking new learjet, got herself raped to make a million $$ and get a canadian visa?

Bush's Rotweiler growls at Bush's envoy Mrs. Patterson -- for his "Huddee in his Shiskabab".

US ambssador barred from seeing Aitzaz Ahsan!!

"LAHORE, Dec 3: United States Ambassador Anne W. Patterson cast doubts about the sincerity of the government to hold free and fair elections after she was denied access to Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz Ahsan here on Monday.

Ms Patterson, who had met former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, human rights activist Asma Jehangir and former chief minister of Punjab Pervaiz Elahi earlier in the day, arrived at Mr Ahsan’s residence in Zaman Park at 3:30pm and issued a brief statement to the press before being ushered inside his office for private talks with his wife.

Making at brief statement after emerging from the office half an hour later, she said: “Let me be clear -- we have consistently called for the release of all detainees. He is in custody, he cannot be seen and we have asked the government and urged the government to release him as soon as possible.�

“I think it certainly casts doubts on the capacity to hold free and fair elections. If candidates are under arrest, it makes it very difficult to hold a campaign.�

The ambassador was trailed to her car by two US human rights activists from Code Pink, chanting “Why is the Bush administration continuing to support Musharraf?� They had spent the previous night on a 24-hour vigil at Mr Ahsan’s residence.

A detention order issued on Sunday night extended Mr Ahsan’s home detention by 30 days. He “poses a grave threat to the public safety and is likely to cause breaches of public peace and order,� it stated."

Bush needs to send MISTER Patterson -- not Mrs. Patterson to shorten the leash after checking the K9 for the rabies virus.

Thanks Ras -- here is the last paragraph of that Jang editorial on Aitzaz Ahsan:

"The question that comes to mind is… how can the entire government and the military and civil establishment be so scared of one man that they cannot let him get out of his home?

Is it because they FEAR that he may say something or move a petition in a court?

This is not a hypothetical but a valid question given the existing ground reality. Aitzaz is, by any yardstick, a popular politician, a brilliant orator and a successful lawyer -- right now he is the man the government is so scared of that he has again been caged for 30 days.

He is also a candidate in the Jan 8 election and how can he possibly woo his constituents if he is detained.

This would suggest that what the government is doing in his case is nothing more than pre-poll rigging -- and that too of the most blatant kind. Aitzaz must be released forthwith and allowed to campaign.

If the superior courts are helpless in providing this basic right to a very respected citizen, because of the emergency, President Musharraf must personally order his release as his continued detention has become a major international embarrassment for his new presidential tenure (of course house arrest of deposed judges and Geo TV's continued closure are other sticking points for Mr Musharraf).

As a cynic would say, if Aitzaz cannot be freed – since he is deemed too dangerous -- perhaps one shouldn't be surprised if all his opponents are also put under house arrest. i.e. if the government comes good on its oft-repeated claim that the Jan 8 election will be one with a level playing field for all candidates and parties. His continued arrest, that of the deposed judges and the ban on Geo, make the power structure in Islamabad look so fragile.(Daily Jang)

Anil,

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nasah,

Pls Check

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=84166

FREE AITZAZ AHSAN

Re: # 22

I got your email, earlier one filter might have filtered it out. Can you please email me your email address?