Nilofar Bakhtiar (Urdu: نیلوفر بختیار) (born 9 September 1957) is a public official in Pakistan.

Begum Ali Malik, Bakhtiar's mother, was a renowned social worker and was also the founder and chairperson of The National Committee for the Repatriation of POWs after the 1971 war.

[1] In April 2007, Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwa urging that she be punished and fired from the government after some newspapers printed photographs of her hugging her parachuting instructor, a man, after landing from a charity parachute jump in France.

The clerics stated that this was "an illegitimate and forbidden act, and that without any doubt, she has committed a great sin.

[citation needed] On 21 May 2007, according to some sources Nilofar Bakhtiar announced her resignation as Tourism Minister, over the parachute controversy.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz rejected this resignation[6] but Bakhtiar insisted and quit.

[7] Ms Bakhtiar complained of a campaign of intimidation against her, and had told a Senate Standing Committee that her life was under threat.