Prominent Pak rights activist Asma dead
Update: 2018-02-12 08:00 IST
Lahore: Asma Jahangir, one of Pakistan’s most prominent human rights activists, has died of a heart attack aged 66. She was rushed to hospital in Lahore on Saturday night and died on Sunday, her daughter Muneeze Jahangir said.
Jahangir was the chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and respected for her outspoken criticism of the country’s militant Islamist groups and her record as an activist.