Feisty fighter, Pakistan’s conscience
Asma Jahangir opposed military dictators, alienated religious parties, did not mince words against the country’s highest court. By Khaled Ahmed Pakistan’s leading human rights lawyer, Asma Jahangir, died of a heart attack in Lahore on February 11, aged 66. There was a spontaneous outpouring of grief in Pakistan, even from those who didn’t like her challenge to an increasingly fundamentalist […]