Mukhtaran Mai, 43, the victim of Meerwala (Jatoi) gangrape, married a constable Sunday in Meerwala. Constable Nasir Abbas is serving as clerk of store at Jatoi police station in Muzaffargarh district. It is second marriage of Nasir, who has five children (three daughters and two sons) from his first wife Rukhsana Mai. Mukhtaran asked him to divorce his first wife Rukhsana but he could not do so, because his two sisters were married in exchange (Watta-Satta) of Rukhsana and Rukhsana's parents threatened to send his sisters back to home if he left Rukhsana.
Later, Mukhtaran forced him to stay at her home and she would not go to in-laws home, because her many projects are under process. Mukhtaran's brother Abdul Shakoor was married on February 18, 2009, while marriage of her private secretary Nasim is due on March 22, 2009, family sources said.
Ghulam Farid Gujjar, father of Mukhtaran Mai, confirmed the Nikah of Mukhtaran and said it is an arranged marriage and the groom is a resident of a neighbouring village of Ghalwan. SHO Jatoi police station Rehan Rasul said, "It is a confirmed report that Mukhtaran Mai married our constable Nasir Abbas Gabol who is already married."
In July 2002, the world erupted in condemnation of an alleged gangrape of a Pakistani village woman, reportedly on the orders of a local justice council, Punchayat, to atone for a crime, sexually assaulting Salma Mastoi, Mukhtaran's teenage brother Abdul Shakoor was accused of.