HYDERABAD: An event was held on Sunday to observe the first death anniversary of eminent lawyer and human right activist Asma Jahangir (February 11) by the Special Task Force of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). Tributes were paid to late Asma Jahangir for her services for the voiceless, downtrodden and oppressed sections of the society, especially minorities, women, peasants and labourers against mistreatment done with them by powerful people, forces and groups of the society. They told the gathering that Asma Jehagir always patrolled the rights of secular liberals, religious minorities, the politically disenfranchised, wronged women, abused women as well as children. She even fought for the constitutional rights of the very same religious extremists and hard – right nationalists who would have had her silenced, they added. Asma Jahangir had breathed her last on February 11, 2018, in Lahore at the age of 66 due to cardiac arrest.

Source: Pakistan Today February 10, 2019 17:15 UTC