Riffat Akbar Swati is a former member of the provincial assembly from
Mansehra District, in the
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...
province of
Pakistan.
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She was born on 20 October 1946 into a Kashmiri Rajput family. They moved to Abbottabad
Abbottabad (; Urdu, Punjabi language(HINDKO dialect) آباد, translit=aibṭabād, ) is the capital city of Abbottabad District in the Hazara region of eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 40th largest city in Pakistan and fourth ...
after partition of India
The Partition of British India in 1947 was the Partition (politics), change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: ...
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She married into a Swati family of Mansehra.
Riffat Akbar's credit
It goes to Riffat Akbar Swati's credit that she introduced Dr.Syed Mehboob renowned research scholar, writer and columnist to Hindko circle and persuaded
him to write in Hindko. Dr. Syed Mehboob is a multilingual writer and writes in English, Urdu, Hindko and Sindhi languages. His Hindko articles
published in monthly Farogh " Peshawar.
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1946 births
Hindkowan people
People from Mansehra District
Pakistani politicians
Living people