Valiant Rights fighter Asma Passes Away
Prominent lawyer's funeral will be held at Gaddafi Stadium tomorrow as nation mourns the sudden death by Mansoor Malik
Lahore: Asma Jahangir, an iconic lawyer, activist and champion of human rights, passe away here at the age of 66 on Sunday. a constant traveler, she returned to the city she had given so much to and accepted a lot from to bid a final fer well to world she always strives to make a better place for the coming generation. Her departure was marked by a suddenness that had become her characteristic thought her time as a fierce campaigner for people's rights. She collapsed while on a telephone cell, discussing a meeting with a lawyer, was rushed to a private hospital but could not survive. A doctor concerned at Hameed latif hospital told dawn that she died of brain hemorrhage. she has left behind her husband, two daughters and a son. According to family sources, Ms Jahangir's funeral will be held on Feb Tuesday at Gaddafi stadium at 2 pm as her daughter and brother are scheduled to arrive in Pakistan from abroad. As the news of her death spread across the country and beyond, her friends and colleagues among the lawyers community intellectuals politicians civil society members and her wall wishers rushed to her hall Road, residence in a state of shock and disbelief condolences and tributes poured in thought messages and posts on social networking sites including Twitter. Among others chief Justice of Pakistan main Saqib Nisar as well as other Supreme Court Judges and senior lawyers reached.
Ms Jahangir's residence and extended their heartfelt condolences and sympathies to her family the mourners were all praise for her being the leading torch bearer of human right who put up huge resistance against intolerance and retrogressive elements of all kinds brave and outspoken she rose to prominence by sheer dint of hard work diligence and commitment to the ideals of rule of law said her colleagues in the legal fraternity and the area of human rights. Senior lawyer Azam Nazir Taror told media persons that he was on the phone with Ms Jahangir, when she collapsed. after that i screamed and kept repeating her name but the call eventually dropped he said often addressed as the voice of the voiceless, Ms Jahangir had an illustrious decades old career in the pursuit of human rights and stood undaunted in the face of extreme pressure, and even shrugged off life threats with her customary nonchalance. she confounded the Human rights commission of Pakistan in 1987 and before that in the early 1980 the women action forum. She was widely known for playing a prominent role in the lawyers movement also in the same decade she up the famous legal firm AGHS along with lawyers Shehla Zia, Gulrukh and others Continued.............
