The family of respected Pakistani rights advocate Asma Jahangir has confirmed her death from cardiac arrest. She had recently won Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize for her work defending and promoting human rights. Tributes have been paid to the prominent Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir after her death on Sunday in Lahore. Jahangir, who was 66, died of cardiac arrest, according to her sister. Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said on Twitter she was “heartbroken” at the death of the “savior of democracy and human rights,” especially as the pair had just met in Britain a week ago.

Source: Egypt Independent February 12, 2018 08:26 UTC