But to a Pakistani, it has a lot of features that single it out as being privileged There is a surfaced road, rather than a dirt track The village is connected to mains electricity There is a large school for both boys and girls. She appealed to the Supreme Court, which has ordered a retrial and that the men are rearrested. Now she will have to relive that night again in court.She also hit the headlines after the Pakistani government, which had previously backed her, unexpectedly turned on her and banned her from a planned visit to the US to talk about her ordeal. Mai was back in the news this year after a Pakistani court unexpectedly overturned the guilty verdicts on the men who raped her and set them free.

Those who have gone on living have hidden away what happened to them under a code of silence Not Mai. She broke every taboo in Pakistani society, telling her horrific story again and again, to the police, to the media and to the courts, until the men who did this to her were convicted.And she will have to go through all of this again. This is Mukhtar Mai, the most famous Pakistani woman in the world. The tragedy of it is that her fame is a result of being gang-raped at gunpoint by four men from her village as an “honour punishment”.
But then even that doesn’t single her out in Pakistan, where women are still raped every year on the orders of such councils as punishments because their relatives have somehow offended against tribal codes of “honour”.No, this shy, unassuming village woman in front of us is famous around the world because she was the first victim to stand up and demand justice, to insist that the men who raped her be brought to court, and to refuse to be silenced by the traditional values that say being raped is too shameful for a woman to speak of.Many Pakistani rape victims have committed suicide rather than live with the “shame” of what has happened to them.

After a furious row, the Transport Ministry agreed to pay Global 50 per cent of the money owed.. She is the last to enter the room. It is almost as if she slips in behind the others, a small woman, her slight figure hidden in the folds of her brightly coloured salwar kazmeez. When it comes time to talk, she is happy to let the others do most of the talking, preferring to leaf through a pile of magazines, shyly pretending to study the pictures

But she’s the one we’ve come to meet. On Friday, troops from the Interior Ministry advanced on the airport, but withdrew when faced with US troops. Tit-for-tat killings have now become common.Baghdad international airport reopened yesterday after being closed down by the British security company Global Strategies Group because it has not been paid for seven months.

Both events are likely to deepen the divide between Sunnis, Shias and Kurds.Sectarian hostility between Shia and Sunni Arabs is increasing by the day. The bodies of 18 men, all Shia, have been found handcuffed and shot to death after they were picked up by men in police uniforms in a Shia neighbourhood of Iskandariyah, a town 30 miles south of Baghdad.One of the problems in using the Iraqi army to take and occupy Sunni Arab towns and villages is that the presence of Shia and Kurdish soldiers provokes a backlash and leads to greater support for the insurgents. It faces a referendum on the draft constitution on 15 October and an election for the National Assembly in December. The disproportionate casualty figures suggest that, if true, most of the insurgents were killed by bombs or shells.Mr Dulaimi implied that his men would soon launch attacks on other cities and towns where the resistance is largely in control.

He said: “We say to our people in Qaim, Rawa, Samarra and Ramadi – we are coming and terrorists and criminals will not be able to hide there.” He blamed Iraq’s neighbours for allowing foreign fighters to enter Iraq.In the past, the US army has borne the brunt of the fighting and the Iraqi army presence has largely been cosmetic. When Iraqi troops have been engaged, it is usually former Kurdish and Shia militiamen who have been most effective.Tal Afar is a mainly Turkoman town of 200,000 people, most of whom have fled, west of Mosul.The US and the Baghdad government have long believed that Tal Afar is a staging post for insurgents entering Iraq from Syria. But Turkomans and Sunni Arabs in the town see themselves as under pressure from the Kurds. The town has been governed by a Shia city council and police force since the fall of Saddam.

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