Document - In this June 14 , 2017 record photograph , Pakistani human rights dissident Asma Jehangir addresses The Associated Press in Lahore , Pakistan . Jahangir passed on of a heart assault in the eastern city of Lahore on Sunday, Feb. 11 , 2018 . She was 66.
LAHORE, Pakistan — Asma Jehangir , one of Pakistan 's most noticeable right activists and legal counselors , passed on Sunday of a heart assault in the eastern city of Lahore at 66 years old, her girl said.
News of Jehangir 's sudden demise shook political , social and media hovers in Pakistan, and in addition government positions . President Mamnoon Hussain , Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and others offered sympathies .
Jehangir endured a heart assault late on Saturday night and was hurried to healing center where she kicked the bucket at an opportune time Sunday, her little girl Muneeze said .
Conceived on Jan . 27 out of 1952 , Jehangir had a conspicuous profession both as a legal counselor and rights lobbyist .
She has filled in as director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and was broadly regarded for her candid feedback of the nation ' s aggressor and outrageous Islamist gatherings and unparalleled record as rights lobbyist .
Jehangir likewise filled in as leader of the Supreme Court ' s Bar Association and was a U.N . rapporteur on human right and extrajudicial killings .
She was on Time magazine 's rundown of 100 most persuasive ladies .
A furious safeguard of majority rules system , she regularly reprimanded Pakistan's military and insight. She shielded minority Christians accused of obscenity , an offense that under Pakistan' s dubious law conveys capital punishment .
She was more than once undermined by the nation 's activist religious right whom she censured boisterously and frequently .
A champion of human rights, Jehangir was unafraid to talk noisily against those assaulting minority religions and ladies . She won scores of worldwide honors. Quite a long while prior , she quickly sent her family out of the nation following dangers from activist gatherings .
Companions , relatives , activists and writers thronged to her habitation in Lahore to express their despondency . Neighborhood TV stations communicate film demonstrating open figures and Jehangir' s companions crying and reassuring each other outside her habitation as her body was brought home from clinic .
Zohra Yousuf, a previous administrator of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan , said she lost a " extraordinary companion and awesome warrior of human rights. "
" No one can supplant Asma, .. . She was unmatched and unparalleled , we endured an extraordinary misfortune today , " Yousuf said.
Lobbyist Marvi Sarmad tweeted : " Today it's not just Pakistan who will cry . The whole South Asia might grieve Asma Jehangir ."
"'Talking truth to control ,' an expression we frequently utilize , Asma Jehangir lived, honed till her final gasp ," said another dissident , Raza Ahmed Rumi .
Jehangir is made due by her representative spouse, Tahir Jehangir , a child and two little girls . Her other little girl , Salima , lives in London . The memorial service would happen after Salima 's come back to Pakistan, the family declared .