Ghazala Rahman Rafiq ( ur, غزالہ رحمان رفیق) is an educationist, and social reformer from

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Sindh Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

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. She is daughter of the eminent

Hassanally A. Rahman Hassanally A Rahman ( sd, حسن علي رحمان ur, حسن علی رحمان) was born in Karachi, Sindh (1909 to 1986), to a prominent and respectable family of legal professionals, government officers, and people actively involved in the ed ...

. She was one of the founder members of Women's Action Forum in 1981.

Education and career

Rafiq did her Ph.D in Education from

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, USA. After completing her PhD, Rafiq as an academic was interested to preserve Sindhi language. She is director of The Sindh Abhyas Academy (SAA) which is housed at

Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology SZABIST is a private institute with multiple campuses in the residential and commercial areas of Pakistan especially in the heart of Pakistan, Karachi, Islamabad, and United Arab Emirates. Its main campus is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. O ...

(SZABIST),

. The institute offers education for the subject of Sindh Studies including Sindh’s history, geography, culture, economics, anthropology and philosophy for undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Publications

In addition to that she is a freelance writer and has written numerous articles on Education Policy in Sindh and Pakistan. She has also written in Dawn News, The Friday Times and

The Express Tribune ''The Express Tribune'' is a daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan. It is the flagship publication of the '' Daily Express'' media group. It is Pakistan's only internationally affiliated newspaper in a partnership with the ''Interna ...

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