Dr. Nafisa Shah

Dr. Nafisa Shah is a Member of the National Assembly in the Pakistan Parliament. She has a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University.

She has been a mayor of a district, a Young Global Leader nominee by the World Economic Forum, and a Secretary of the Women Parliamentary Caucus.

Her book ‘Honour and Violence: Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan’ was published in 2016.

Shukriya Khanum

Shukriya Khanum

started her flying career in 1959.

Pakistani Women Achievers by Zaheeruddin Asif is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Pakistani Scientist

Shahida Hasnain

wins UNSECO award

List of Prominent Pakistani Women

Here is a small list of prominent PAkistani Women:

1. Fatima Jinnah

2. Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan

3. Benazir Bhutto

4. Fatima Surayya Bajia

5. Abida Parveen

6. Nergis Mavalvala

7. Bilquis Edhi

8. Bano Qudsia

9. Muniba Mazari

10. Namira Saleem

Hibah Rahmani

Read more about her here

Lyari Boxers

Good on them

Unaiza Ali

Unaiza Ali Barlas, a young cartoonist from Pakistan (twenty years of age), has been officially named in the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the world’s longest comic strip.

Read more about her here: A girl from Lahore

and here

Some updates

At seventeen, Sameera is the youngest ACCA affiliate in the world.

Maham secured top position at the Britain's top law university. She completed her A- levels from Islamabad only recently. Click on the heading below to read more about her.

Young Pakistani woman tops Britain’s Durham Law School exam

Here is a photo of Al-Shams Women Football Club in Hunza. They have already won allocades from all over Pakistan. Click on the image below to find out more

Little achievers!

This is just a random assortment of Pakistani girl's and women that may be a cause for happiness and encouragement to Malala.

Zoha comes first:

Then comes 13 year old Hooria, who obtained three A*s in Cambridge exams:

Next, The world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, Arfa Karim;

Then, comes 11 year old Sitara Akbar from chinot, another world record holder:

Okay, what about our first female fighter jet pilot - Ambreen Gul:

or first female combat ready fighter jet pilot - Ayesha Farooq:

Captain Kiran Ashraf is our best female paratrooper:

Not that Hina Rabbani Khar - our first female foreign affairs minister - is old but she has had enough press already so I mention Samina Baig - our first female climber who scaled Everest"

Not to forget Naseem Hameed - the fastest girl in South Asia:

Pakistani women also hold top positions in Bridge and Swimming in Asia. Moving on to entrepreneurship, have you heard of Maria Umar - who runs and owns    The Women's Digital League an IT-solution company that trains rural Pakistani women in micro online tasks, from online writing to social media management.

If you google Roshaneh Zafar you will find out that she established Pakistan's first microfinance institution - Kashf foundation, which is now on the Forbes list of world's top 50 microfinance organizations. You can hear her here:

Saba Gul is another high achiever;

The list is a bit longer, but the above should give some joy to us.