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Mai won't allow anyone to tarnish Pakistan's image
MULTAN, Pakistan - A Pakistani woman who captured international attention for her bravery after suffering a gang rape three years ago said on Saturday she wouldn't allow anyone to use her name to tarnish the image of her country.
Don't you worry Mai, there's no need to use your name to tarnish the image of Pakiwakiland.
Mukhtar Mai's comments came a day after Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, told reporters in New Zealand that he ordered a recent travel ban on her because foreign private groups wanted to take her to America "to bad-mouth Pakistan" over the "terrible state" of the nation's women.

"Pakistan is my country, and how can I allow anyone to bring (a) bad name to Pakistan," Mai, 36, told The Associated Press from Meerwala, a village in eastern Punjab province where she was raped in June 2002 to punish her family for her brother's alleged affair with a woman from another family.

On Saturday Mai said she had no plans to settle abroad. "I will live and die here, and I assure the president that I would never do anything against Pakistan," she said.
"There. I said it. Please don't kill me!"
Mai added, however, that she would continue to demand punishment for her attackers.

She has expressed worries about the safety of her family since June 10, when a court in the eastern city of Lahore ordered the release of a dozen men detained in connection with her rape. Mai is from the Gujar clan while her alleged attackers were from a clan considered socially higher, called Mastoi.
At what point does a clan rise high enough to be considered 'upper Paleolithic'?
She has denied that her 13-year-old brother had sexual relations with the Mastoi woman, and said a council of villagers ordered her rape to cover up a sexual assault on the boy by Mastoi men.
Posted by: Steve White 2005-06-19
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