Tarek Fatah
Tarek Fatah (Punjabi/Urdu: ; 20 November 1949 – 24 April 2023) was a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author. Fatah advocated LGBT rights, a seperation of religion and state, opposition to sharia law, and advocacy for a liberal, progressive form of Islam. He called himself "an Indian born in Pakistan" and a Punjabi born into Islam" and was a vocal critic of The Pakistani religious and political establishment. To this end, Fatah had criticized the partition of India. Since 1987 Fatah left Pakistan and settled in Saudi Arabia, before emigrating to Canada.