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4 Nov 2026 by Ibrar Ali

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Jalila Haider is a human rights lawyer from Quetta. In 2018 she went on hunger strike to demand protection for the Hazara community.1

In 2019 the BBC named her among its 100 Women and described her as the first female lawyer from the Hazara community.1

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  1. The Express Tribune, Pakistani lawyer Jalila Haider makes it to BBC 100 Women 2019, 2019. ↩ ↩2