Airports are being warned, Border security tightened, Press packages prepared.

At a government staged press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan on June 18, 2005, the gang rape of educator, Islamic scholar and now women's social activist Mukhtar Mai was expected to continue in a closet. Instead, her tears were carried on radio, video, digital and printed media worldwide. Now as the current US administration tries delicately to save the face of one of it's last surviving eastern military allies, the part of the world that notices such things, waits to see the fate of one recurrent victim. With China and the USA battling it out to see who can arm Pakistan the fastest, the question of 'humanitarian observances' is sure to stay confused.