Mushaal Hussein Mullick
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 2025 | |
| President | Arif Alvi |
| Prime Minister | Anwarul Haq Kakar |
| Preceded by | Azam Nazeer Tarar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 October 1986 |
| 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 who served 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.[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]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Born in Pakistan into an ethnic 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]
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Pakistani women in politics
- Pakistani human rights activists
- Pakistani women's rights activists
- Spouses of Pakistani politicians
- Pakistani people stubs
- 21st-century Pakistani politicians
- 21st-century Pakistani women politicians