On a national level, Asma Jahangir is President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan.
In 1969, at the age of seventeen, Jahangir began her own pro-democracy rebellion against Ayub Khan.
In 2010, the Prize was given to eminent Pakistani human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir.
Few people are predicting a happy resolution to this increasingly dangerous situation, yet Jahangir remains optimistic.
Even so, India is home to an unusually pernicious form of corruption, argues Jahangir Aziz of JPMorgan.
In 1994, Jahangir won the freedom of a fourteen-year-old Christian boy who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy.
Pakistan is a notably patriarchal society, but Jahangir is its most visible and celebrated as well as most vilified human-rights lawyer.
Asma Jahangir is a determined advocate of using education as a means to eliminate the root causes of intolerance and discrimination.
One of its authors is Asma Jahangir, a Pakistani human-rights campaigner who has faced death threats, and in 2007, house arrest.
Jahangir helped organize protest marches against the Hudood Ordinances, and she was arrested and sent to prison for a month in 1983.
One of the finest stones on display is the 'Talisman of the Throne', presented to Emperor Jahangir in 1621 by the Shah of Iran.
The collection includes the famous Ruby Dagger, which is inlaid with nearly 2, 400 precious stones and may have been worn by the Emperor Jahangir himself.
After graduation, Jahangir landed a job in Merrill Lynch's Toronto office.
As she recounted her ordeal, her husband, Jahangir Kabir, who worked in a different garment factory, buried his head in his hands and fought back tears.
Asma Jahangir was born here in 1952, five years after the creation of Pakistan as a homeland for the Muslims of India, and it remains her base.
Jahangir remembers her childhood as idyllic, yet from an early age her life was touched by the anxieties, disappointments, and disillusionment that afflicted Pakistan from its birth.
Bazid, whose grandfather Jahangir and father Majid also played Test cricket, hit one boundary but was out when Collymore found the inside edge as he prodded forward.
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Jahangir, who was only thirteen at the time, was alone in the house with her two sisters, and had to take the badly wounded man to the hospital.
Yet at the center of the group was a fragile-looking, diminutive woman in a crisp white shalwar kameez, a neat black jacket, and heavy tortoiseshell spectacles, named Asma Jilani Jahangir.
It was the first of a succession of arrests and prison terms, and Jahangir and her mother spent much of their time in court trying to challenge the various detention orders.
Asma Jahangir's work extends internationally through her roles as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions.
Inscribed with the name Nur Jahan, the wife of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahangir, this heart-shaped diamond is believed to have been a gift from the ruler to his son, who became the great emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666).
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The announcement of the award of the Prize to Asma Jahangir on 16 November - International Day for Tolerance - honours her commitment and important contribution to fostering interreligious and intercultural dialogue, tolerance, mutual understanding and cooperation for peace.
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