a woman from a village in punjab province gang raped in two thousand and two by men from a rival tribe as an act of revenge an act that pushed my two attempts and after she went to the police should receive death threats in short a gang rape that changed her life forever for the past seventeen years has fought for justice she's been through three courts and many legal hurdles has more on the woman who's got it on where many others with her fear and. booked our miles from a small farming village called me a while in two thousand and two when her twelve year old brother was accused of having illicit relations with a woman from a rival clomb the village council ordered her to be raped my admits she attempted to kill herself twice after her rape but then she decided to fight back. then on the second day there were educated people standing with me they were encouraging me there were also people from the media from civil society and that's when i thought it's better to fight and die because the one who saves a life is bigger than the one who kills. mokhtar mys case ignited international outr

worldwide survivor my who is appealing against the acquittals comes from a rural area in pakistan's punjab province she was gang raped in two thousand and two on orders of her believed counseling they wanted to punish her for her younger brother's alleged relationship with a woman from a rival tribe out of fourteen men my accused of involvement only one is serving a prison sentence all the rest a been acquitted. my now a prominent human rights activist has never stopped fighting for justice in the pakistani courts in an exclusive interview she told the w she's keeping up the struggle not just for herself but for all women in pakistan. isn't easy to always repeat what i've gone through. it is very hard for me. but i want those people to be punished because i don't want anyone else to become another mactire my. main but this is my aim. for more let's cross over to islam of by word journalist nosheen us is standing by for us no she didn't look tom my eyes legal case has dragged on for nearly seventeen years how did we get to this appeal today and what's at stake. so basically in two thousand and two s

province. put in job and others -- punjab and others.e government of pakistan is determined to act against any of those outfits targeting any one or the other group and if you look at how things are playing out over the past year, i would say that the situation definitely has changed dramatically. so, i do not know which particular instance or inns -- or incidents you're talking about, but i am not aware of those. in terms of the utility part, i the --do not quite get of interiorinister would be able to answer that question because i do not quite get that. lateryou can take that on. in terms of japan's involvement, pakistan,that, for that is also an important relationship and in fact, japan has been one of the oldest investors in pakistan. countrye japan is a that relies on open sea lanes for imports as well as exports, it seeks to have partnerships in the wider region also. so in that regard -- and japan is also a country that has invested in peace and japan has also historically played an important role in supporting that about -- deve