Ibn Abdur Rehman, also known as I.A. Rehman (born 1 September 1930 in Haryana, British India and died 12 April 2021 in Lahore, Pakistan),is a Pakistani peace and human rights advocate, and a veteran communist. A protégé of the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, he became chief editor of the Pakistan Times newspaper in 1989. He is the founding chair of the Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy. He has also been a director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) since 1990, and is a prominent human rights activist. Rehman has been influential for promoting peace in the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts and in Kashmir conflict as well as for other human rights issues in Pakistan.
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1 September 1930 Haryana, British India
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Died |
12 April 2021 (aged 90)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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