LOS ANGELES: Fifteen years after her horrific gang rape by a local clan in her village in Pakistan, Mukhtar Mai is reliving her ordeal – and courageousness – through a US opera inspired by her story.
“I was very emotional when I first started watching it and began reliving the incident in my mind,” Mai, 37, said on Friday, after attending the Los Angeles premiere of Thumbprint.
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