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Tahira Mazhar Ali (née Hayat) (5 January 1924 – 23 March 2015) was a Pakistani women's rights campaigner and a political activist, and mentor to Benazir Bhutto. Her children include British Pakistani political activist Tariq Ali, Tauseef Hyat, and Australian journalist Mahir Ali.
29 mar 2015 · Tahira Mazhar Ali: Women’s rights campaigner who was the mother of Tariq Ali and acted as mentor to Benazir Bhutto. 'She was the original woman leader who demonstrated that the struggle for...
27 mar 2015 · When her husband, the journalist and lifelong activist Mazhar Ali Khan, died in January 1993, there was a deluge of glowing obits, both here and abroad.
- Jugnu Mohsin
The Democratic Women's Association was a political organization led by Tahira Mazhar Ali in 1950. The organization was founded with the intention of including worker's rights with women's right in Pakistan. It was the first leftist organization in Pakistan that represented women's rights.
16 mag 2015 · Human Rights Commission of Pakistan general secretary IA Rehman remembered Ali’s role during the movement against the military operation in East Pakistan in 1971. He said the issue came up at a writers’ conference in Islamabad after the independence of Bangladesh.
13 apr 2015 · The veteran leftist Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan (1925 to 2015) died on March 23, 2015. Her departure closes the chapter on pre-partition erstwhile Lahore-based Communist and pro-Communist intellectuals and activists. I first saw her in the late 1960s at meetings in Lahore of workers and of the National Awami Party (Wali Khan).
Tahira Mazhar Ali became the relentless voice of protest against the take-over of Pakistan by religious fundamentalists. She joined other leading women rights activists to form the Women’s Action Forum (WAF) in 1981 to resist the Islamisation agenda.
