Ziauddin yousafzai pronunciation

Pakistani education activist

Ziauddin Yousafzai (Urdu: ضیاء الدین یوسفزئی; Pashto: ضیاالدین یوسفزی; born 20 April 1969)^[1] is a Pakistani educational entrepreneur^[2] and activist best known as the father of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who protested against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan opposition to the education rights of girls, especially for Pakistani girls.

He is currently co-founder and board member of Malala Fund and the author of Let Her Fly (2018).^[3]

Biography

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Early childhood

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Yousafzai was born in 1969 to a Pashtun family in Shangla. Ziauddin's father was the orator Rohul Amin Yousafzai, who was also a teacher of theology at a government high school and imam of the local mosque.^[4][5]

As teacher he co-founded and ran a chain of low-cost private schools known as the Khushal Public School,^[6] named after a famous Pashtun poet, Khushal Khan Khattak,^[7] as