Lahore, Pakistan — Pakistan bid farewell to its top rights advocate Asma Jahangir Tuesday, with thousands cramming into a major cricket ground under tight security to grieve the diminutive woman described by many as the country’s "moral compass". Sobbing lawyers dressed in black blazers, leading politicians, intellectuals and activists joined more than 3,000 citizens flooding Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, where camera drones flew overhead as mourners accompanied the body with flowers and wreaths. Women could be seen in the front row and throughout the crowd during the funeral prayers — highly unusual in Pakistan, where the genders are often segregated for prayers and social events, but symbolic of Jahangir’s leadership in the long battle for women’s rights in the conservative, patriarchal country. "Asma’s death has created a wide gap that looks to be never filled," one attendee, college teacher Said Raheem Ul Haque, said as the service began. Jahangir, who died of cardiac arrest on Sund...
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