Riffat Akbar Swati
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Riffat Akbar Swati is a member of the provincial assembly from Mansehra District
, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
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Riffat Akbar Swati was born to a well-known Swati
family of Manshera, widely respected for its social and political service in the area.
She has a reputation as a courageous, bold and outspoken Swatien
woman, a symbol of struggle for women's rights
not only in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa but across Pakistan. She has promoted the Hindko language
, publishing many books in Hindko, and has been honoured with a title of “Madre Hindko”. She had rendered excellent services in promotion of Hindko. On her credits is introduction of Dr. Syed Mehboob a reseracher, writer and columnist who previously was writing in English,Urdu and Sindhi but Riffat Swati motivated him and introduced him into the circle of hindko writers.
Mansehra District
Mansehra District is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, an area still unofficially known as the Northwest Frontier. Mansehra district and town are named after Man Singh, a leading general of Mughal Emperor Akbar...
, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
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Riffat Akbar Swati was born to a well-known Swati
Swati
Swati may refer to:* Swati language, Bantu language spoken in Swaziland and South Africa* Swati , Pashtun tribe in Pakistan** Riffat Akbar Swati** Sa'adat Khan Swati* Swati the Star, star in ancient Sanskrit scriptures that corresponds to Arcturus...
family of Manshera, widely respected for its social and political service in the area.
She has a reputation as a courageous, bold and outspoken Swatien
Swati (tribe)
The Swatis are a Pashtun tribe based around the Swat valley, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They are the largest tribal group of land owners in the Mansehra and Battagram districts....
woman, a symbol of struggle for women's rights
Women's rights
Women's rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies.In some places these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behaviour, whereas in others they may be ignored or suppressed...
not only in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa but across Pakistan. She has promoted the Hindko language
Hindko language
Hindko , also Hindku, or Hinko, is the sixth main regional language of Pakistan. It forms a subgroup of Indo-Aryan languages spoken by Hindkowans in Pakistan and northern India, some Pashtun tribes in Pakistan, as well as by the Hindki people of Afghanistan...
, publishing many books in Hindko, and has been honoured with a title of “Madre Hindko”. She had rendered excellent services in promotion of Hindko. On her credits is introduction of Dr. Syed Mehboob a reseracher, writer and columnist who previously was writing in English,Urdu and Sindhi but Riffat Swati motivated him and introduced him into the circle of hindko writers.