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Rukh as active member of WAF, used her art to highlight community, women’s rights and issues. In Lahore, when local printers on the orders of government refused to print the newsletters and protest material. Rukh began producing, designing and printing many of the WAF’s posters that were demanding
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political activities, she was also sent to jail at that time. She was against the implementation of the Hudood
Ordinance penal code considering it as discriminatory against women. Again during the Musharaf's dictatorship, when Emergency 2007 was imposed, she got arrested with other 50 WAF members.
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Rukh was founding member of Women’s Action Forum (WAF). She was among fifteen members who founded WAF in 1981. As an activist and campaigner, she spoke for the rights of women and many minorities and women. She also took part in the women’s protest against martial law of
Dictator Ziaul Haq. For her
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Rukh never married and adopted her sister’s daughter Mariam. Rukh was diagnosed with cancer in June 2017 and died on 7 July 2017 (69 years age).
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freedom and equal rights for women. Her collection of feminist art "Crimes
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Rukh's art work has minimalist and meditative expressions. Her work, "Mirror Image, 1, 2, 3, 1997" (a collage) were acquired by
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