ISLAMABAD: Pakistani women right activist and 2002 gang-rape victim Mukhtaran Mai sympathised with 20-year-old Indian girl who went through the same on Monday by saying that ‘ The incident made her remember her ordeal once again”
In a US Television interview, she remarked that “If I could not get justice, how can that Indian girl think of that? the judge who promised me justice when himself received it, he forgot me” taking a jab at Pakistan’s former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
Mukhtaran said that Indian and Pakistani rural culture is the same and it is feudal lordship which reigns supreme in both the neighbouring countries.
Indian girl gang raped on rural council’s order
A 20-year-old Indian girl was gang-raped in the East Indian state of Bengal allegedly after orders of rural council of elders, ‘Panchayat’ on January 20 over non-payment of fine money Rs25000 from her family.
Mukhtaran Bibi told the interviewer that even after 12 years, she cannot forget the day and the horrific incident, and still cries in solitude after remembering it.
She said that till today, she has to take pills for a peaceful sleep as she is still traumatized by her ordeal that day.
Mukhtaran Bibi, who fought for justice against her gang rape in 2002 on the orders of a rural council in Pakistan’s Meerwala village, an incident that saw its repetition in India’s Birbhum disctric on Monday when a 20 year old girl was gang raped on rural council’s order with the council leader saying “Go and enjoy with the girl”
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