Mushaal Hussein Mullick
Mushaal Hussein Malik 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.
She is the spouse of Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, the commander of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, who is currently serving a life imprisonment sentence in India.
Early life and education
Born in Pakistan into an ethnic Kashmiri family, 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. 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.Mishal holds a post-graduate degree in political economy from the London School of Economics.