Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: Na fanau Perween Rahman iā Ianuari 22, 1957, i Dhaka, lea sa iai i Pakistan i Sasaʻe (lea ua taʻua nei o Bangladesh). O ia o se tagata o le aiga o Bihari lea na siitia atu i Karachi ina ua mavae le
taua i Pakisitana i Sasaʻe i le 1971. Na ia mauaina se tikeri o le Bachelor of Architecture i le 1982 i le Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, ma se tikeri faauu i le fale, fale ma le fuafuaina o taulaga i le 1986 mai le Institute of Housing Studies i Rotterdam, Netherlands. Na galue o ia i se kamupani tumaoti aʻo leʻi faʻafaigaluegaina e Akhter Hameed Khan e avea ma Faʻatonu Soʻofaʻatasi o le Orangi Pilot Project i le 1983, lea na ia faʻatautaia ai le fale ma le tumama. I le 1988, na vaeluaina ai le OPP i ni faalapotopotoga se fa, ma avea ai Perween Rahman ma faatonu o le OPP-RTI (Orangi Pilot Project <unk> Research and Training Institute), ma ia puleaina foi polokalame i aʻoaʻoga, aʻoaʻoga a le autalavou, sapalai o le vai ma fale saogalemu.