Interviews : Pakistan is a difficult state for religious minorities: Asma Jahangir - Smruti Koppikar, Hindustan Times

Asma Jahangir is Pakistan’s best-known lawyer, pro-democracy campaigner, human rights activist, fierce critic of military regimes and the Ulema-jihadi groups. She was recently appointed to the United Nations’ three-member fact-finding mission on Palestine, and has served as UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom and Faith. She was president of Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar Association and most recently took up the case of the country’s former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani over the ‘Memogate’ scandal. For her work and her views, Jahangir has been threatened with “dire consequences” many times. An attempt was made on her life two months back. She remains unfazed and sworn to the

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