Mezue ahịrịokwu a: A mụrụ Perween Rahman na January 22, 1957, na Dhaka, nke dị n'Ebe Ọwụwa Anyanwụ Pakistan (nke bụzi Bangladesh). O si n'ezinaụlọ Bihari nke kwagara Karachi na-esote
agha obodo n'Ebe Ọwụwa Anyanwụ Pakistan na 1971. O nwetara nzere bachelọ nke Architecture na 1982 na Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, na diplọma postgraduate na ụlọ, ụlọ na atụmatụ obodo na 1986 site na Institute of Housing Studies na Rotterdam, Netherlands. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ na ụlọ ọrụ na-ahụ maka ụlọ ọrụ nkeonwe tupu Akhter Hameed Khan were ya n'ọrụ ka ọ bụrụ Onye Nchịkwa Njikọ nke Orangi Pilot Project na 1983, ebe ọ na-elekọta mmemme ụlọ na mkpocha. N'afọ 1988, e kewara OPP n'ime nzukọ anọ, Perween Rahman wee bụrụ onye nduzi nke OPP-RTI (Orangi Pilot Project <unk> Research and Training Institute), na-ejikwa mmemme na agụmakwụkwọ, ọzụzụ ndị ntorobịa, mmiri na ụlọ obibi.