Advisory Council

Justice (R) Majida Razvi

Chief Advisor Advisory Council

Justice (R) Majida Razvi

Chief Advisor Advisory Council

Justice (R) MajidaRazvi is the first woman judge of a High Court in Pakistan. She practiced in the High Courts and Supreme Court and taught Law in Hamdard School of Law. As a writer she specialized in legal issues pertaining to rights of women and children, and is associated with various organizations for the removal of all discrimination against women and supporting human rights.
She retired as Judge of the Sindh High Court and worked as the Chairperson, Sindh Human Rights Commission.
Justice MajidaRazviis currently serving as Chairperson, Sindh Human Rights Commission under the Government of Sindh.

The Advisory Council is composed of 18-members headed by the Chief Advisor. They are experts in their respective fields of specialization. The responsibility of the Advisory Council is to provide technical advice and recommendation to LRF as and when requested for their expert opinion their most relevant filed. Currently, the Advisory Council is headed by Justice (Retd) MajidaRazvi.

Board of Directors

The 07 Member Board is the apex body responsible for governing the organization by establishing board policy, organizational goals; ensuring the availability of adequate financial resources; approving annual budget; appointment of auditors; policy direction and generally the oversight of the LRF.

Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed

Chairperson

Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed

Chairperson

Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed is the Chairperson of LRF. He is Chief Executive of the leading nonprofit organization HANDS (Health And Nutrition Development Society). He is a medical graduate, holding Master’s in Public Health. He has done his fellowship from Public Health Institute Santa Cruz California. His unique experience of working as Public Health Educationist and Development specialist is spread in a canvas of thirty years, during this period he has been working with a donor agency (USAIDS), Public sector (Health Department-Government of Sindh) and a National Non-Governmental Organization (HANDS). His distinctive job position has exposed him to enormous understanding of grass roots realities and the National & International policies forum. His 20 years of consistent leadership of HANDS has developed it in to a fascinating integrated development model, working in 24 districts of Pakistan with staff strength of nearly 2000. More than 25 papers are on his credentials, presented in international conferences, held in different countries. He is also the writer of 23 publications on Development & Public health issues.

Dr. Khalid Iqbal

Vice Chairperson

Dr. Khalid Iqbal

Vice Chairperson

Dr. Khalid Iqbal is a prominent child specialist and social activist of Pakistan. He has been more than twenty five year professional experience in the field of pediatric. He is a member of various national and international organizations. He is life member of Pakistan Pediatric Association. He is involved in research work of pediatric nutritional and common disease. Now a day he is working with as a Chief Executive Officer of Kharader General Hospital Karachi. This hospital run on charity basis.

Mr. Shoiab Safdar

General Secretary

Mr. Shoiab Safdar

General Secretary

Mr. Shoiab Safdar Ghumman currently working with Prosecution Department Government Sindh. He is also online activist and prominent (Urdu) Blogger. He has done LLM in International Law from Karachi University. He is also doing PhD form same university. He is devoted for the promotion and protection of human rights issues. He is a founder member of LRF and he has volunteer working with LRF as governing board member since June 1, 2007.

Mr. Muhammad Munaf

Treasurer

Mr. Muhammad Munaf

Treasurer

Muhammad Munaf Allana belongs to business communities and social activist. He is President of SHED Foundation. He is working for the promotion of basic rights such as health, mentally ill, person with disabilities, senior citizen and primary education nationwide. He is volunteer working with LRF as a governing board member since 2012.

Mr. Muhammad Rahib Lakho

Member

Mr. Muhammad Rahib Lakho

Member

Muhammad Rahib Lakhoo is an advocate since 2004. He is human rights and legal aid advocate. He is working with LRF as a governing board member since December 2011. He is focusing as a criminal lawyer. He is also devoted for the promotion and protection of women and children rights and marginalized communities in Pakistan.

Ms. Hameeda Kaleem

Member

Ms. Hameeda Kaleem

Member

Ms. Hameeda Kaleem is a prolific - seasoned campaigner, activist and practitioner in gender and human rights’ areas; an expert trainer, researcher, policy advisor and program management specialist with over 22 years of experience in international, regional and national social development context. She worked with several international missions, civil society, host country government institutions and corporate sector supporting the gender cause. Partners in her work list include World Bank, USAID, DFID, DAI, Institute of Inclusive Security, Oxfam Novib, Care International, NE, Plan International, Creative International, Shirkat Gah Women Resource Center, allied government offices to streamline gender and human rights’ issues. Currently, she is working on a USAID and Government of Sindh collaborated program on basic education with focus on girl child and community mobilization. Ms. Hameeda leads the program and policies as Gender Advisor.

Ms. Farzana Shoiab

Member

Ms. Farzana Shoiab

Member

Mrs. Farzana Shoib is the founder of Bint-e-Fatiam Old Home Trust. She is women right activists. She has working experience with women senior citizens in Pakistan. She is also experience with caring for homeless elderly, neglected senior citizen who have been living by their own and are spending their remaining days in poverty, misery and sickness. BFOHT not only provide the shelter and its valued services to senior citizens these are also for survivor of gender base violence.

LRF Team Members

Mr. Muhammad Tahir Iqbal Malik

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Muhammad Tahir Iqbal Malik

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Muhammad Tahir Iqbal Malik is a prominent Human Rights and Legal Aid Advocate. He has done LLM in social legislation from Karachi University. He has developed policy papers in the field of strengthening the rule of law, improving criminal justice system, and legal aid, women and children rights in Pakistan. He has also developed training manuals and capacity building resources for women legal-socio-economic empowerment, women lawyers, judiciary, prosecution and police. He is devoted for the promotion and protection of women, children, minorities, transgender and person with disabilities rights. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Legal Rights Forum since June 1, 2007. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including Human Rights Activist Award from Govt. of Pakistan which recognizes those who have made extraordinary contributions to the cause of human rights, rule of law and good governance. He has also working experience as a consultant with UNODC, UNOPS, UNDP, Federal Ministry of Human Rights Sindh Region, and Law Justice & Commission of Pakistan, Bar Councils, Bar Associations, District Courts, Sindh Human Rights Commission, Law Department, Social Welfare Department, Labour Department, Police Department, Prosecution Department, and Women Development Department. He has won competition Justice Makers Fellow Ship 2008 of International Bridges to Justice Geneva Switzerland.

Mr. Imran Ali Bhand

Project Coordinator

Mr. Zeeshan Mahmood

Finance Officer

Mr. Ashfaq

MNE Officer

Mr. Ashfaq

MNE Officer

Mr. Ashfaq is working with LRF as an MNE Officer since 2021

Mr. Tahir Hasnain Shah

Senior Program Manager

Mr. Tahir Hasnain Shah

Senior Program Manager

Mr. Tahir Hasnain Shah, is a qualified, dedicated and experienced development practitioner and researcher having 25 years work experience in the development sector including his last assignment with UN FAO. He has done Masters & MPhil in Agriculture and holds 03 international and 16 national training certificates.He has served reputed national and international organizations in Pakistan at key positions including UN-FAO, SDPI, Oxfam GB, Shirkat Gah, SCOPE, etc.His subjects of interest and expertise include Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Smart Agriculture, Food Security, Land Rights & Governance, Sustainable Livelihoods, Women Rights & Empowerment, Gender Equity, Environment, Climate Change & Adaptations, Community Resilience; Disaster Risk Reduction & Management and networking.
Mr. Shah served CABI – BioScience Centre-Pakistan 1992-1996; Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) 1996-2002; TheNetwork for Consumer Protection-Islamabad 2002-2003; Oxfam GB 2003-2005; Economic Justice and Development (EJAD) -Islamabad 2005-2010; and Shirkat Gah-Karachi 2012-2013; Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment (SCOPE)-Karachi 2010 and 2013-2015; UN FAO-Hyderabad 2015-2017; and LRF from 2017 to date. He has demonstrated experience of managing projects, develop programs, and deliver research/advocacy tasks. He possess Strong interpersonal skills and have the ability to work in joint teams with strong independent capacity and decision-making skills. His other experience includes fund raising, proposal writing, data analysis, writing/editing reports, monitoring, event management, networking and moderation of electronic discussion forums. He has completed more than 50 significant research/advocacy tasks and participated in a number of international and national events as a resource person. He is Member of several international/national bodies and have been to 20 countries across the globe for a number of times. He speaks Punjabi, Saraiki, Urdu and English languages fluently and have also good working knowledge of Pashto and Sindhi languages.
He is currently working as Senior Program Manager at legal Rights Forum (LRF) and is leading the Liaison Office of LRF in Islamabad. He is also involved in different research and development projects as consultant associated with UN, INGOs and other national NGOs. His published work can be viewed at “http://sdpi.academia.edu/TahirHasnain”.

Ms. Rizwana Khan

Program Officer

Mr. Ali Nawaz

Assistant Finance Officer

Mrs. Saima Tahir

Research and Capacity Building Officer

Mrs. Saima Tahir

Research and Capacity Building Officer

Mrs. Saima Tahir is working with LRF as a Research and Capacity Building Officer since June, 2012. She has done LLM in criminology from University of Karachi in 2007. She has done her research work on Child Rights in Pakistan. Her area of expertise is and advocacy, research and capacity building on child rights, women rights and paralegal experts; research on woman and child rights issues in Pakistan. She is a child and women rights activist and dedicatedly working for the children and women empowerment in Pakistan. She is a master trainer and has built the capacity of more than 700 women on Labour rights, children rights and paralegal expertise. She has good contributions in LRF’s development of all research papers related to women and children.

Mr. Muhammad Ali Shaikh

Senior Finance and Admin Manager

Mr. Muhammad Ali Shaikh

Senior Finance and Admin Manager

Mr. Mohammad Ali Shaikhis an experienced and committed finance resource person. He has done B.Com and MPA (Finance) and has a vast experience (16 years) of Accountancy Services and managing Book Keeping, Taxation, Financial & Management Accounting and Software Development. He has actively been involved in preparing Internal Audit working papers and dealing with the Auditors as well as project donors. Mr. Ali is used to prepare and finalize financial statements in accordance with international accounting Standards; project costing; budget analysis; and variance reports. Has has got advanced computer skills on MS Office, Accounting Software especially SAGE, MS Dynamics NAV and Databases (SQL Server).

Mr. Manzoor Ahmad

Admin/HR Manager

Mr. Manzoor Ahmad

Admin/HR Manager

Mr. Manzoor Ahmad is a development professional having master degree in IR & Islamic Studies. He started working in development sector by contributing his voluntary services to charity based organisation since his college life 1990s. His passion towards developing the human capital have led him to work as a development professional in the development sector. Initially, he started his journey as Project Manager at LRF. His keen interest in HR & Admin department led him to acquire a core position of LRF as HR & Admin Officer. He served in the same capacity since last two years. In due course, he has facilitated many trainings, workshops and conferences organised by LRF or its partners. Mr. Manzoor believes in empowering the human capital and strengthening the community as an unit and a world at large.

Mr. Sabir Ali

Receptionist

Ms. Sania Memon

Quality Education Officer

Mr. Waqas

Web Developer and IT Consultant

Mr. Waqas

Web Developer and IT Consultant

Mr. Waqas is working with LRF since 2020 as an Web Developer and IT Consultant.

Mr. Tofique Ahmed Wassan

Program Manager

Ms. Mehwish Hina

Communication Officer

Ms. Mehwish Hina

Communication Officer

Ms. Mehwish Hina is working with LRF as a Communication Officer on Women and Youth Empowerment since 2012. She is an expert on women and youth rights. She is closely working with Government Departments of women development, social welfare, labor, and minorities. She also work with minorities, persons with special needs and transgender. She is very good campaigner on women rights focusing women workers, women right to land, and GBV issues etc. She has worked as a Master Trainer and in this capacity, she has built the capacity of 546 women workers on their rights. Her profound experience and knowledge have enabled her to organize a number advocacy events about women and youth and she has contributed her share in spreading awareness and implementation of Sindh Youth Policy 2018.