The Second Annual Women Achievers Awards ceremony was hosted by Indus Vision on March 8, 2007, on the occasion of International Women's Day, to acknowledge outstanding women of Pakistan in various professional fields including business, banking, social work, performing arts, literature, and medicine.

AKU's very own Dr. Tazeen Jafar was awarded for her work in medicine by Begum Kaniz Majid Khan, a Pakistani educator and colleague of the late Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Dr Tazeen H. Jafar, a medical college alumnus of the Aga Khan University (class of 1990) is the head of Section of Nephrology and the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit (CEU). She is jointly appointed by the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences AKU, as an Associate Professor and is adjunct faculty at the New England Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston, and at Imperial College London.

Dr. Jafar has led the first ever large scale, investigator-initiated, population based projects on strategies to control hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease in Pakistan. Her work has not only highlighted the rising burden of these chronic diseases in the region, she also led the design of several novel, innovative, and cost effective solutions for preventing the same which are being tested in several communities of Pakistan by her research team. Her work has been published in major scientific journals of highest repute, and has acclaimed wide international recognition. More ....