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The Swat state was established by a religious leader, Saidu Baba, who was born in a Muslim Khatana Gujjar [5] family of the upper Swat Valley in 1794. [6] He began his life as a shepherd and then left the village at the age of 18 to settled in the village of Mian Brangola, where he got his early education and learnt the fundamentals of Islam.
Ziauddin Yousafzai (born 1969), Pashtun education activist and father of Malala Yousafzai, from the Dalokhel Subclan; Khan Roshan Khan, Pashtun historian; Najib ad-Dawlah Yousafzai, Afghan serviceman who fought with Ahmad Shāh's Durrani Empire to Victory at Panipat, 1761; Malak Ghazi Khan Yusufzai, was the fourth ruler of Pakhtunkhwa State.
Yousafzai's opposition to the policy of Talibanisation made her unpopular in Pakistan among Taliban sympathisers. [188] [189] A Dawn columnist said she was scapegoated by the "failing state government," [188] and a journalist in The Nation wrote Yousafzai was hated by "overzealous patriots" who were keen to deny the oppression of women in ...
Malak Ahmad Khan Yusufzai (1460–1530), also known as Malik Ahmad Baba, was an Afghan chief and warrior from the Razar-Mandanr clan of the Yousafzai.He is known for his role in the Yousafzai conquest of Swat, Malakand and Lower Dir.
Formally joining the party in 1969 after Swat's merger into NWFP, he was elected member of provincial assembly in Pakistan's 1970, first ever national election. A close confidante of Abdul Wali Khan he was one of three National Awami Party provincial ministers appointed in the short-lived coalition government of Mufti Mehmud .
The Mandanr-Yousafzai are predominant in the areas of what was historically known as Mandanr Country made up of the Mardan Division (Mardan and Swabi), Buner District, Haripur (Khalabat Township), and partly with a presence in the regional Swat Valley and Lower Dir. Moreover, Amazai, the subbranch of Mandanr, is another prominent branch of ...
The Sultanate of Swat was the last Dardic state that existed in the Swat valley between 12th and 16th centuries. It was conquered by the Yousafzai Pashtuns from west during the reign of Sultan Awes Jahangiri in 1519, resulting into the Pashtunization of Swat. [42]
By August 2009, the army have fought off the Taliban in Swat, and the Yousafzai family return. Malala's school re-opens, and she visits Islamabad with school friends, meeting with Major General Athar Abbas and giving a public speech. With her father, Yousafzai speaks at many interviews, critical of the Taliban and the army's ineffectiveness.