Prof. Dr. Naumana Kiran, former Director, Pakistan Study Centre, University of the Punjab, Lahore, is Professor of History and Pakistan Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore. She has published extensively in national and international journals, encyclopaedia and chapters in books on themes of the Federal Cabinet, role of common Muslims in Pakistan Movement, violence against women during partition and migration process in 1947, religious extremism in Pakistan and others. She has presented a number of papers in national and international conferences in India, Malaysia, Turkey, UK, Australia and America and Pakistan. Her book The Federal Cabinet of Pakistan: Formation and Working, 1947-1977, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016, her second book, People’s Role in Struggle for Pakistan, 1940-1947 by Vanguard Books in 2021 and her third book Religious Extremism in Pakistan: Post 9/11 Scenario, Challenges and Achievements from IRD in 2024. She is the recipient of three Awards i.e. Indigenous Ph.D. Fellowship by HEC, Indigenous PHEC Fellowship for her Post-Doctoral Studies and Best Book Award of PHEC 2024.