Mushaal Hussein Malik | |
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مشال حسین ملک | |
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on Human Rights and Women Empowerment | |
In office 17 August 2023 – 4 March 2024 | |
President | Arif Alvi |
Prime Minister | Anwarul Haq Kakar |
Personal details | |
Born | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan | 23 October 1986
Nationality | Pakistan |
Spouse | |
Awards |
United Nations Women Excellence Award for Peace and Human Rights (2020) National Women Rights Award of Pakistan (2018) [1] |
Mushaal Hussein Malik ( Urdu: مشال حسین ملک; born 23 October 1986) is a Pakistani painting artist and social activist,serving as a special advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on human rights and women empowerment, under the caretaker government headed by Anwarul Haq Kakar, since 17 August 2023. [2]
She is the spouse of Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, the commander of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), who is currently serving a life imprisonment sentence in India ( Tihar Jail, Delhi). [3] [4] [5]
Born into a Kashmiri family, [6] her late father MA Hussein Mullick was an economist who headed the economics department at Bonn University, Germany and served as a Nobel Prize jury member while her mother Rehana Hussein Mullick has been the secretary general of the women's wing of the PML-N. [7] Her brother Haider Ali Hussein Mullick is a foreign policy expert based in the United States, as of 2023 being a teacher at the Naval Postgraduate School, while her sister Sabien Hussein Mullick is a social worker. [8]
Mishal holds a post-graduate degree in political economy from the London School of Economics. [9]
Though I am a victim (I don't want to be labelled as one) of a divided Kashmiri family (...)
Mushaal Hussein Malik | |
---|---|
مشال حسین ملک | |
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on Human Rights and Women Empowerment | |
In office 17 August 2023 – 4 March 2024 | |
President | Arif Alvi |
Prime Minister | Anwarul Haq Kakar |
Personal details | |
Born | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan | 23 October 1986
Nationality | Pakistan |
Spouse | |
Awards |
United Nations Women Excellence Award for Peace and Human Rights (2020) National Women Rights Award of Pakistan (2018) [1] |
Mushaal Hussein Malik ( Urdu: مشال حسین ملک; born 23 October 1986) is a Pakistani painting artist and social activist,serving as a special advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on human rights and women empowerment, under the caretaker government headed by Anwarul Haq Kakar, since 17 August 2023. [2]
She is the spouse of Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, the commander of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), who is currently serving a life imprisonment sentence in India ( Tihar Jail, Delhi). [3] [4] [5]
Born into a Kashmiri family, [6] her late father MA Hussein Mullick was an economist who headed the economics department at Bonn University, Germany and served as a Nobel Prize jury member while her mother Rehana Hussein Mullick has been the secretary general of the women's wing of the PML-N. [7] Her brother Haider Ali Hussein Mullick is a foreign policy expert based in the United States, as of 2023 being a teacher at the Naval Postgraduate School, while her sister Sabien Hussein Mullick is a social worker. [8]
Mishal holds a post-graduate degree in political economy from the London School of Economics. [9]
Though I am a victim (I don't want to be labelled as one) of a divided Kashmiri family (...)