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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".
Asma Jahangir
Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer (1952–2018)
Muniba Mazari
Pakistani artist, motivational speaker and human rights activist
Mukhtaran Bibi
rape survivor and one of Pakistan's most prominent rights activists [EPA]
Hina Jilani
Pakistani activist
Tabassum Adnan
Pakistani activist
Jalila Haider
Pakistani human rights lawyer and Provincial president of Women Democratic Front
Tehmina Durrani
Pakistani feminist
Bapsi Sidhwa
Pakistani American author
Begum Jan
Pakistani activist
Sheema Kermani
Pakistan Kathak Bharatantyem Dancer
Zubaida Jalal
politician in Pakistan
Gulalai Ismail
Human rights activist
Ishrat Afreen
Urdu poet
Farida Shaheed
sociologist and feminist human rights activist
Farzana Bari
Pakistani feminist, human rights activist
Shehla Zia
Pakistani lawyer and activist
Madeeha Gauhar
Pakistani actress, playwright, theater director and women's rights activist (1956-2018)
Shahnaz Bukhari
Pakistani women's rights activist
Amar Sindhu
Pakistani writer
Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi
Women's rights activist
Maria Toorpakay
Pakistani squash player
Nafis Sadik
Obstetrician, United Nations Advisor
Amina Nazli
Karachi-based Urdu editor
Fouzia Saeed
Pakistani activist
Lala Rukh
Pakistani women's rights activist (1948-2017)
Iffat Rahim
Pakistani actress and model
Ayaz Latif Palijo
Sindhi nationalist leader
Zaitoon Bano
Pakistani feminist writer
Manmeet Kaur
Pakistani journalist and social worker
Rubina Feroze Bhatti
Pakistani human rights and peace activist
Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola
Pakistani activist and social worker (1917-2005)
Begum Akhtar Riazuddin
Pakistani sarnama nigar
Tahira Mazhar Ali
Pakistani political activist
Nayyab Ali
Pakistani activist
Romana Bashir
Pakistani activist
Sadia Khatri
Pakistani journalist and photographer, co-founder of Girls at Dhabas
Nigar Ahmed
Pakistani women’s rights activist
Reema Omer
Pakistani lawyer and news analyst
Faryal Gohar
Pakistani actress
Nighat Said Khan
Pakistani activist
Roshaneh Zafar
Managing Director - Kashf Foundation
Zehra Khan
Pakistani activist
Fatima Lodhi
Colorism and body positivity activist from Pakistan
Nadia Jamil
Pakistani actress and host (born 1980)
Arfana Mallah
Pakistani scientist
Tanveer Jahan
Pakistani human rights defender and trainer
Jugnu Mohsin Sethi
Pakistani publisher
Tooba Syed
Pakistani feminist, political organiser and gender researcher
Nadeem Kashish
Pakistani transgender activist
Hilda Saeed
Pakistani activist and freelance journalist
Satnam Mahmood
Pakistani journalist (1921-1995)
Zohra Yusuf
Pakistani journalist
Nasim Zehra
Pakistani TV anchor
Ismat Shahjahan
Pakistani politician, feminist, and human rights activist
Arifa Sayeda Zehra
Pakistani educator and Urdu language expert
Ansar Burney
Pakistani human and civil rights activist
Afiya Shehrbano Zia
Pakistani feminist researcher, writer and activist
Khawar Mumtaz
Pakistani women's rights activist, author and professor (1945-)
Wranga Loni
Human rights activist