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Niger Ahmed (born 1945) is a woman right activist from Pakistan and she was the founder of the Women’s Action Forum and Aurat Foundation, which she establish in in Lahore in 1985. She is known as Nigar ‘Apa in the activist circles. Her foundation was initially established as a research centre but turn out to be an economic empowerment for women living in rural villages to take up leadership roles. Her early education started with the Convent of Jesus and Mary, followed by the Government College and then Cambridge university where she specialised in development economics. She has been very instrumental through her foundation to empower women to par take in local  and national election in Pakistan, and also providing the platform for women to engage in political debates. In 2001 Nigar contracted Parkinson’s disease which developed to a pulmonary infection which could not be cured by the doctors. Nigar passed away on the 24th February 2017 at age 72

Education
She attended the convent of Jesus and Mary, followed by Government College Lahore and then the university of Cambridge, United Kingdom where she specialised in development economics.

Career
Social and Woman right Activist, head of women action forum and Aurat Foundation

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