Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai ("Malālah Yūsafzay": ; ; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country. Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
Abaseen Yousafzai Abaseen Yousafzai Abaseen Yousafzai () () is a Pashtun poet from Pakistan. He is president of the Pashto Academy of the University of Peshawar. Yousafzai has had his poetry published across the Durand Line. Abaseen Yousafzai joined the Islamia College Peshawar as a lecturer of Pashto in 1993. Yousafzai has written three poetry collections: "Ghurzanguna" (1994), "Alwat" (2005), and "Maraam " (2016). "Ghurzanguna" ran to ten editions and "Alwat" to five editions. Yousafzai was given a book launch ceremony from the Abasin Arts Council for "Alwat". His book, "Da Pakhtunkhwa Bani", is a biography of Malek Ahmad Baba, who founded