Pashtun activists

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".

Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer (1952–2018)

Afghan politician

Pakistani activist

Pakistani activist

Pakistani economist and strategist (1929–2024)

Women's rights advocate from Afghanistan (1941-2006)

Human rights activist

Afghan politician

Women's rights activist

Pakistani squash player

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Afghan politician

Pakistani advocating for ending child marriage

Human rights activist

Pakistani politician, feminist, and human rights activist

Afghan journalist

Human rights activist

Afghan politician and women's rights activist