14 Facts About Mukhtar Mai

Mukhtar Mai started the Mukhtar Mai Women's Welfare Organization to help support and educate women in rural areas throughout Pakistan.

Mukhtar Mai was called to the council to apologize to the Mastoi tribe for her brother's actions.

Mukhtar Mai's clothes were presented as evidence in court and following the medical examination of Mukhtaran and chemical analysis of her clothes at least two semen stains were revealed.

Mukhtar Mai again criticized the police personnel assigned at her residence in Meerwala, saying that they had made life miserable for her and her family, and that her aide Naseem was denied exit from Mukhtaran's house.

Mukhtar Mai was led sobbing to detention at a secret location and barred from contacting anyone, including her lawyer.

On 19 June 2005, The New York Times columnist Nicholas D Kristof reported that as Mai returned from the US embassy in Islamabad, after getting her passport stamped with a US visa, it was "confiscated" by Musharraf's government, they were claiming she was now free to travel to the US, and removing her name from the ECL, thus rendering her unable to travel outside the country.

Mukhtar Mai has since refused to talk about what happened in Islamabad, when she withdrew her application for a visa to the United States or who had taken her passport.

Mukhtar Mai filed an appeal with the Multan bench of the Lahore high court against the acquittal of the eight men set free on 3 September 2002.

Mukhtar Mai went on to become a symbol for advocates for the health and security of women in her region, attracting both national and international attention to these issues.

Mukhtar Mai's organization teaches young girls, and tries to make sure they stay in school, rather than work or get married.

In June 2010, it was reported that Pakistan Peoples Party legislator Jamshed Dasti has threatened Mukhtar Mai to withdraw her appeal in the Supreme Court against the accused rapists.

Mukhtar Mai said in an exclusive interview to the Express Tribune that Dasti threatened her last week through his messengers in Mir Wala and through the supporters of Federal Minister for Defence Production, Sardar Qayyum Jatoi, whose constituency she resides in, is putting pressure on her family in various ways, for example, to remove the police check post from outside their house.

Dasti, a critic of Mukhtar Mai, confirmed that he had requested her to reach a compromise on the matter.

Mukhtar Mai has been praised by dignitaries like Laura Bush and the French foreign minister.