Nasira Iqbal

As a legal scholar, she has lectured around the world and represented Pakistan at various international forums.

[citation needed] She was one of the first five women to be appointed to the Lahore High Court, where she served as a justice from 1994 to 2002.

[1] She is also the president of an activist group, the Concerned Citizens of Pakistan Society (CCP).

[citation needed] Iqbal has been a member of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan, the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, and the Pakistani delegation to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

[citation needed] Nasira Iqbal was married to Javid Iqbal– a former chief justice of the Lahore High Court, member of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and son of the poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal[4] –until his death on 3 October 2015.