Nighat Said Khan (Urdu: نگہت سعید خان) is a Pakistani feminist activist, researcher and author.
She is the director and founder of the Applied Socio-Economic Research (ASR) Resource Centre and a founding member of the Women's Action Forum.
Through her work and activism, she has also spoken out about issues of sexuality, female desire and critiqued traditional forms of family.
"[4] Nighat has worked with Professor Eric Cyprian at Shah Hussain College, Lahore, and later at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad in the 1970s.
[5] She established Applied Socio-Economic Research (ASR) in 1983[6] which is the first feminist publishing house in Pakistan[7] and self-identifies as "a multidisciplinary, multidimensional group working towards social transformation.