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Aafia Siddiqui. Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; [ 8] Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani national who is serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, for attempted murder and other felonies. [ 6][ 9] Siddiqui was born in Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family ...
Murder of Zainab Ansari. Zainab Amin Ansari ( Urdu: زینب امین انصاری; c. 2010 – January 2018) was a seven-year-old Pakistani girl who was abducted in her hometown of Kasur, Punjab while she was on her way to Quran recitation classes on 4 January 2018. Her body was found discarded five days later within a garbage disposal site ...
Sharbat Gula ( Pashto: شربت ګله; born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman who became internationally recognized as the 12-year-old subject in Afghan Girl, a 1984 portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June 1985 issue of National Geographic. The portrait was shot at Nasir ...
— Malala Yousafzai, 24 January 2009 BBC blog entry In February 2009, girls' schools were still closed. In solidarity, private schools for boys had decided not to open until 9 February, and notices appeared saying so. On 7 February, Yousafzai and her brother returned to their hometown of Mingora, where the streets were deserted, and there was an "eerie silence". She wrote in her blog: "We ...
The four girls were delivered via cesarean section at 29 weeks gestation. The smallest was Petra, who weighed in at 2 pounds, 7 ounces; Hannah, the largest, was born at 2 pounds, 13 ounces.
List of Pakistani models References ^ LAHORE: A tribute to late artiste (Begum Khurshid Mirza) Dawn (newspaper), Published 26 March 2004, Retrieved 16 June 2020
Rimsha Masih ( Urdu: رمشا مسیح — some early reports used the first name "Rifta" or "Riftah") is a Pakistani girl [1] from Islamabad, [2] who was arrested by the Pakistani police on blasphemy charges in August 2012 when she was 14 years old. [3] The alleged charges included desecrating pages of the Quran (or a book containing verses ...
Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar , appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic .