Background
Rehman, Ibn Abdur was born in 1930 in Punjab, India. Arrived in Pakistan, 1947, naturalized.
human rights activist politician
Rehman, Ibn Abdur was born in 1930 in Punjab, India. Arrived in Pakistan, 1947, naturalized.
Graduate, Aligarh University, India.
Rehman - born 1 September 1930 in Harayana, India, is a Pakistani peace and human-rights advocate and a veteran communist. A protégé of the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, in 1989, he became chief editor of the Pakistan Times. He is founding chair or the Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy and since 1990, director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
Rehman has been influential for promoting peace in the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts and in Kashmir as well as for other human-rights issues in Pakistan.