The loss of Asma jahanger
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prominent Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir, has died at the age of 66. She reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest and was taken to hospital, where she later died. The pro democracy activist championed women's rights throughout her career. She was imprisoned in 1983 and put under house arrest in 2007 5 years ago, leaked documents suggested that some intelligence officers had planned to kill her Mr Hunger call for inquiry at that time, demanding the government find it forces who wanted to silence her. More recently, she spoke out against BBC Persian journalists being put on, tried in Iran as part of her role as U. N special rapporteur on human rights in Iran. Prime Minister Shahid Hakan Abbasi led tributes to Mr Hung here, saying her death was a great loss for the legal fraternity. I'm praying for her and her family