Pakistani Women Achievers
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Namira Salim
Namira Salim
Already, she is the ‘first’ Pakistani to have reached the North Pole, the South Pole and the first Asian to have sky-dived off Mount Everest.
Namira is a space diplomat, trained as an astronaut, a proponent of space tourism and hopes to be soaring into space soon. When she does so, she will be the first Pakistani to go to space.
Sunday, July 21, 2019
10-year-old Pakistani girl becomes world’s youngest to scale 7,000m mountain
https://www.samaa.tv/lifeandstyle/2019/07/10-year-old-pakistani-girl-becomes-worlds-youngest-to-scale-7000m-mountain/
Pakistan’s ‘Mountain Princess’ Selena Khawaja has become the youngest climber to scale a 7,000-metre-high mountain.
Ten-year-old Selena became the youngest person to climb the 7,027m peak of Spantik also known as the Golden Peak situated in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Nagar Valley in the Karakoram sub-range.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Rokhsana Fiaz
British Pakistani elected first London borough woman mayor
"Fiaz’s parents moved to the United Kingdom from Pakistan in the 1960s. Her predecessor Sir Robin Wales, who did not stand in the elections, remained the London borough’s mayor for 16 years. Terming her victory “mind-blowing,” Fiaz said her win was representative of the hope and trust people had in the Labour Party and how it had been steadily gaining ground under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn."
Mahjabeen Malghani
Mahjabeen Malghani rides 60 KM each day to teach!
Everyday, 33-year-old Mahjabeen Malghani, travels approximately 60 kilometres on a motorcycle, to go and teach students at a boy’s primary school, in Dera Ghazi Khan.
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