Victim's book speaks .....

The victim speaks .............Simon and Schuster, the publishers of General Musharraf’s autobiography, will launch memoir of another Pakistani in America on October 31. This ‘other’ memoir is already a bestseller in rest of the world as it has been translated into 20 languages, including Hindi and Hebrew, but not in Urdu. It is the horrific tale of Mukhtaran Mai, the celebrated Meerwala victim of the world famous gang rape case. Musharraf’s ‘In the Line of Fire’ needs a lot of time to catch up globally with Mai’s memoir, which hit the second best seller spot in France as soon as it was launched. -ZULFIQAR ALI BUTT, London, UK, via e-mail, October 12. (published in Daily Nation, Lahore, Pakistan on November 2nd,o6)