“Unfortunately we have lost her,” Hina Jilani, also a prominent rights activist, told AFP. Without her the world is less,” wrote prominent Pakistani lawyer Salman Akram Raja. Few Pakistani rights activists have achieved the credibility of Jahangir. She braved death threats, beatings and imprisonment to win landmark human rights cases and stand up to dictators. “There was a time that human rights was not even an issue in this country.

Source: The Guardian February 11, 2018 10:18 UTC