Influential Pukhtun Women

  1. Samar Minallah 
 
Dubbed as "The Pashtun Crusader with a Camera," Samar is a praiseworthy woman who has chosen to use her means, skills, and time to...
  2. Dr. Shaheen Sardar Ali 
 
A Pashtun woman who was formerly a Professor of Law at University of Peshawar in Pakistan, Dr. Shaheen is the author of the...
  3. Malalai Joya 
 
Malalai Joya is, at age 29, the youngest person to become a member of the Afghan Parliament. She was one of 68 women elected to the...
  4. Samar Minallah
  5. Mehvish Rukhsana Khan, author of "My Guantanamo Diary" and a lawyer (in the U.S.) by profession. 
 
More about her at...
  6. Lieutenant-Colonel Malalai Kakar 
"Symbol of Hope for Afghan Women" 
 
A mother of six, she was a police officer who jailed men who abused their...
  7. Sharbat Gula, in 1984 
 
Through her striking eyes, she has pretty much served as the main source of awareness universally to the pain that Pashtun...
  8. Fauzia Minallah 
 
(Samar Minallah's sister?) 
A Pashtun artist whose work can be found at http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/m/minallah/ 
and...
  9. Shaista Sadat 
 
She anchors "TV Ashna" ("Ashna" means "friend" in Pashto). There are no other TV broadcasts into Afghanistan in the native...
  10. Lieutenant-Colonel Malalai Kakar 
"Symbol of Hope" for Afghan Women"
  11. Malalai Joya
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