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Pages in category "Pakistani feminine given names" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
There are several titles used in Pakistan and other Muslim countries. Syed, Shaikh, Khawaja, Pasha, Malik etc. are common. Less commonly, the tribal name itself is appended to the person's given names. For females, tribal names or titles rarely figure in the person's full name although it has become more common due to Western influence.
Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; [4] born 12 July 1997) [1] [4] [5] is a Pakistani female education activist, film and television producer, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [6] at the age of 17.
Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.
It originated from Aisha, the third wife of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, and is a very popular name among Muslim women. Ayesha and Aisha are common variant spelling in the Arab World and among American Muslim women in the United States, where it was ranked 2,020 out of 4,275 for females of all ages in the 1990 US Census . [ 1 ]
Shahnaz Laghari (Urdu: شھناز لغاری) is the first Pakistani Hijabi female pilot who flew aircraft wearing the hijab. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is also a good social worker in her community, and running few training centers to empower the women in the society.
Kulsoom Abdullah was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Okeechobee, Florida.She frequently visited Pakistan while growing up and speaks Pashto. [3] She has a Master's degree and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. [4]
She dressed like a boy for the first 16 years of her life in order to participate in competitive sports as a Muslim girl, using the name Genghis Khan, fully supported by her Muslim parents. [3] After defeating boys in weightlifting at age 12, Toorpakai turned to squash and, having to produce a birth certificate, gave up pretending to be a boy ...