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Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen".

Qandeel Baloch
Pakistani model, actress, feminist activist and social media celebrity

Mukhtaran Bibi
rape survivor and one of Pakistan's most prominent rights activists [EPA]
Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
Pakistani diplomat (1905-1990)
Asma Barlas
Pakistani academic
Jalila Haider
Pakistani human rights lawyer and Provincial president of Women Democratic Front
Sheema Kermani
Pakistan Kathak Bharatantyem Dancer
Naela Chohan
Ambassador of Pakistan, Feminist Artist
Zarina Baloch
Pakistani singer
Marvi Sirmed
Pakistani human rights activist
Farida Shaheed
sociologist and feminist human rights activist
Farzana Bari
Pakistani feminist, human rights activist
Riffat Hassan
Pakistani-American theologian
Amar Sindhu
Pakistani writer
Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi
Women's rights activist
Lala Rukh
Pakistani women's rights activist (1948-2017)
Amina Nazli
Karachi-based Urdu editor
Khalida Brohi
activist for women's rights and social entrepreneur from Pakistan
Rubina Feroze Bhatti
Pakistani human rights and peace activist
Alya Bakhshal
Pakistani feminist, political worker and organizer
Reema Omer
Pakistani lawyer and news analyst
Begum Akhtar Riazuddin
Pakistani sarnama nigar

Ayaz Latif Palijo
Sindhi nationalist leader
Nigar Ahmed
Pakistani women’s rights activist
Arfana Mallah
Pakistani scientist

Nighat Said Khan
Pakistani activist
Huma Safdar
Begum Anwar Ahmed
Pakistani feminist (1908-1973)
Tooba Syed
Pakistani feminist, political organiser and gender researcher
Ismat Shahjahan
Pakistani politician, feminist, and human rights activist
Zohra Yusuf
Pakistani journalist
Sanna Ejaz
Human rights activist
Wranga Loni
Human rights activist
Amna Mawaz Khan
Pakistani classical dancer and activist

Zille Human Usman
Pakistani politician

Khawar Mumtaz
Pakistani women's rights activist, author and professor (1945-)
Afiya Shehrbano Zia
Pakistani feminist researcher, writer and activist

Nasreen Anjum Bhatti
Pakistani poet and political activist
Syeda Shahar Banu
Bangladeshi politician and women's rights activist
Majida Rizvi
Pakistani judge