Cause of death Murder Nationality Pakistani | Name Perween Rahman | |
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Perween Rahman (22 January 1957, Dhaka – 13 March 2013, Karachi) was a Pakistani social activist, director of the Orangi Pilot Project Research and Training Institute. She was murdered on 13 March 2013.
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- Trailer perween rahman the rebel optimist
- Perween rahman last presentation in achr meeting bkk
- Biography
- Murder and Investigation
- Awards
- Publications
- References
Perween rahman last presentation in achr meeting bkk
Biography
Perween Rahman was born on January 22, 1957 in Dhaka, then situated in East Pakistan. She moved to Pakistan as a teenager. She obtained a Bachelor of architecture in 1982 at the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, and a postgraduate diploma in housing, building and urban planning in 1986 from the Institute of Housing Studies in Rotterdam. She worked at a private architecture firm before being recruited by Akhter Hameed Khan to become Joint Director of the Orangi Pilot Project in 1983, where she managed the housing and sanitation programmes. In 1988, OPP was split in four organisations, and Perween Rahman became director of OPP-RTI (Orangi Pilot Project – Research and Training Institute), managing as well programmes in education, youth training, water supply and secure housing.
In 1989, she founded the NGO Urban Resource Centre in Karachi and was also part of the board of Saiban, another NGO dedicated to low-income housing, and OPP-OCT (Orangi Charitable Trust, the microfinance branch of OPP).
She was teaching at the University of Karachi, NED University, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and Dawood College of Engineering and Technology.
She is the sister of author and teacher Aquila Ismail.
Murder and Investigation
On March 13 2013, Parweeen Rehman was killed when four gunmen opened fire on her vehicle near Pirabad Police Station, ending her 28-year-long career for land and basic services rights for Pakistan's poor. Rehman has been an outspoken critics of the land mafias in Karachi and their political patrons.
Ms Rehman has complained in the past that she has received death threats. At one point some armed men stormed her offices and ordered her staff to leave
Main suspect in Perween Rahman murder arrested from Mansehra: police
Perween Rahman. — Illustration by Khuda Bux Abro
PESHAWAR: The prime suspect in the murder of Orangi Pilot Project Director Perween Rahman was arrested Thursday during a joint operation conducted by Karachi and Mansehra police in Mansehra.
The suspect Ahmed Khan alias Pappu Kashmiri was arrested in Mansehra, police said.
Police further said that the suspect will be presented before a district and sessions court in Mansehra shortly.
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Perween Rehman, a media-shy social worker who devoted her life to the development of the impoverished neighbourhoods across the country, was gunned down near her office in Karachi's Orangi Town on March 13, 2013.
The very next day, police killed a Taliban operative named Qari Bilal in an encounter and claimed he was the murderer, resulting in a closure of the case.
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Last year on April 15, the Supreme Court of Pakistan had ordered authorities to conduct a fresh probe into Rehman's murder after a judicial inquiry had revealed that police officers had manipulated the investigation.