Ziauddin Yousafzai is a Pakistani diplomat and the father of Malala Yousafzai, a young woman who protested against the Taliban for the education rights of children, especially for Pakistani girls. He is currently the United Nations Special Advisor on Global Education and also the educational attach� of Pakistan in its consulate in Birmingham, UK. Ziauddin's father was the orator Rohul Amin Yousafzai. He is also a school owner and an educational activist himself, running a chain of schools known as the Khushal Public School, named after a famous Pashtun poet, Khushal Khan Khattak, as well as being a member of the Rotary Club of Swat. In 2014, Yousafzai made an appearance on TEDTalks speaking about his support for equal rights for women. Politically, he is affiliated with the Awami National Party, a liberal Pashtun nationalist party in Pakistan whose origins are linked with the Khudai Khidmatgar, which was a secular Pashtun non-violent movement against the British Raj. 

January 1st, 1969 in (Age 55)