Afrasiab Khattak
Mr. Afrasiab Khattak is the Chairman of the BOD. He is a practicing lawyer, political and human rights activist, journalist, author and a commentator on regional affairs with special interest in democracy, human rights, regional issues, ethnic conflicts and security. He was vice chairperson of HRCP for 3 years (1996-99). He was unanimously elected the Chairperson of HRCP on 2nd May 1999 for a three years term. Then he was re-elected as chairperson of HRCP for the second term in 2003. He has been working as the central executive member of the Pak-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, a non-governmental organization working for peace in South Asia. He was elected Chairperson of the Pak India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy in September 2003. He joined Awami National Party, a secular, liberal and democratic political organization on July 4 2003 and was nominated member of the central executive of the party. He resigned from the chairmanship of HRCP, and was elected as Additional Secretary General of ANP. He is the founding member of South Asian’s for Peace (SAHR), founded in Alwar, Rajhistan, India in July 2000. He was coordinator of National Steering Committee working on a Human Rights Charter for Pakistan, a project of Democratic Commission for Human Development (DCHD). Afrasiab Khattak is a prolific writer. He contributed a weekly column on current affairs to the English language Daily “The Frontier Post” for five years. (1994–1999).
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Asma Jehangir
Asma Jahangir is currently the Chairperson of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) – a reputed and independent human rights organization in Pakistan. She has been the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the Commission on Human Rights since 2004. Previously, she served as the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary and Summary Executions. She is a founding member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and has served as Secretary-General and later Chair of the organization. Asma Jahangir is also law partner and co-founder with her sister Hina Jilani of Pakistan's first all-female law practice. In 1995, Jahangir received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.
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Dr. Fazal Rahim Marwat
Dr. Fazal-ur-Rahim Marwat is Associate Professor in Pakistan Study Centre, University of Peshawar, NWFP (Pakistan). He did his Masters in Political Science, M. Phil and Ph. D from the Area Study Centre (Central Asia), University of Peshawar. Dr. Marwat has to his credit several articles and books about the history and politics of South East Asia. He is member of several national and international organizations and institutions. Currently he is Fellow of Social Science Research Council (South Asia Regional Fellowship Program) 2004-2005 and Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Baacha Khan Research Centre. He has contributed a number of articles and research papers to journal and newspapers of national and international repute on the history, culture and politics of Afghanistan, Central Asia and NWFP.
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Kamran Arif
Kamran Arif is a lawyer and a human rights activist based at Peshawar. Since joining the Bar in 1991 he has been active in Human Rights litigation. He has also remained a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Peshawar and at the Human Rights Studies Centre, University of Peshawar. His research interest includes the rights of the marginalized groups, rights of children and the criminal justice system in the country. Kamran Arif has a long association with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). He has been the member of the Executive committee of the HRCP since 1999 and has been elected the Vice-Chair (NWFP) in 2002 and again in 2005. At the HRCP he has worked, amongst other things, on the issues relating to the administration of justice, rights of the people of the Northern Areas of Pakistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. He has also remained the National Coordinator of the ‘Campaign to Roll-back the Death Penalty’ initiated by the Democratic Commission for Human Development.
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Dr. Syed Waqar Ali Shah
Dr. Sayed Wiqar Ali Shah did his Masters in History and Pashto and M. Phil in History from the University of Peshawar, where he also taught for a year. Later, he joined the National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, Islamabad as a Research Fellow. He joined the Department of History, Quaid-i-Azam University as Assistant Professor in 1990. In 1993, Dr. Shah went to the University of Oxford (UK) and completed his D. Phil in 1997. He did his doctoral research on the Khudai Khidmatgars and the politics of the N-WFP, the first of its kind any where in the world, published by the Oxford University Press entitled Ethnicity, Islam and Nationalism: Muslim Politics in the North-West Frontier Province, 1937-1947. In 1999, Dr. Shah has been awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Presently he is Professor of History and Chairman at the Department of History, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
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Muhammad Raza (ex-officio)
Muhammad Raza did LL.M. from Georgetown University (GU), Washington D.C. with distinction in May 2006. He was on the Dean’s List of the GU Law Center (2005-2006), and also obtained a Certificate in International Human Rights Law during the same period. He is a Fulbright scholar, and was among the three Fulbright nominees for the New Leaders Group Award for International Understanding, 2005-2006. Muhammad Raza is member of the American Bar Association (ABA), and the International Law Society of GU. Before joining GU, he worked as an in-house legal counsel for the University of Peshawar. In volunteer capacity, he was associated with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) as consultant in its Afghan Desk at Peshawar. In 1997, he was the founding member of a private education system that aimed at providing education to the under-served areas of NWFP. He has worked on legal, administrative, socio-cultural and political issues of Pakistan, particularly the NWFP, the federally administered tribal area (FATA), and Afghanistan; and has written several articles. =====================

Brig Muhammad Ishaq (Retd.)
Brig Muhammad Ishaq was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in 1966. He is a graduate of Command and Staff College Quetta and National Defense College Rawalpindi/ Islamabad. He obtained his Master degree from the Quid-e-Azam University Islamabad. He has been Director Personnel in General Headquarters Rawalpindi. He served as Military Secretary to Governor Balochistan. Brig (Rtd) Ishaq has authored several articles on military and non-military subjects, which have been published from time to time. For overall recognition of his sustained excellent performance on duty, he has been awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military), by the Government of Pakistan. He retired in 1998 while commanding Frontier Force Regimental Centre in Abbottabad. He served as Chairman Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Peshawar and as Chairman Inter Board Committee of Chairmen, Pakistan. He is recipient of letter of commendation from the Government of NWFP on extra ordinary performance as chairman Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Peshawar.
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Colonal Faiz Muhammad Afridi (Retd.)
Col Faiz Muhammad Afridi was born on 11 May 1953 at Kohat and received his early education from Cadet College Kohat. He joined the Pakistan Military Academy in 1971 and was commissioned in Pakistan Army in July 1972. He has good experience in instruction, teaching, and administration. He served as Manager Education Fauji Foundation. He attended a number of professional courses including law courses. He is a graduate from Command and Staff College Quetta, and has served on many important appointments for thirty years. He was instructor at Pakistan Military Academy and School of Infantry and Tactics Quetta.