Fareeda "Kokikhel" Afridi was a Pakistani feminist, a women's rights activist in Pakistan.
While still in school, with her sister Noor Zia Afridi, she founded the Society for Appraisal and Women Empowerment in Rural Areas (SAWERA), a women-run NGO promoting women's empowerment in FATA.
Her friends and colleagues suspected the threats originated with FATA Taliban militants.
[7] On 5 July 2012, as Afridi left her home to go to work in Hayatabad a suburb of Peshawar, she was shot once in the head and twice in the neck by two motorcyclists, who afterwards escaped.
Condemning the murder at a protest camp organized by the Aurat Foundation along with Peshawar Press Club and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain stated:Imposing death decrees on individuals such as Farida has resulted in a negative portrayal of our country as well as Islam itself.