{"id":17131,"date":"2025-04-06T07:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17131"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:51:42","slug":"pakistani-novelist-alishba-barech-wins-young-woman-of-the-year-at-women-changing-the-world-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17131","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani novelist Alishba Barech wins \u2018Young Woman of the Year\u2019 at Women Changing the World Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pakistani novelist Alishba Khan Barech was named the winner of the \u201cYoung Woman of the Year\u201d category at the Women Changing the World Awards 2025, a press release issued on Friday said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Women Changing The World Awards is a global programme<\/a> recognising the work of \u201cincredible women making a positive difference in the world across a range of industries and areas including business, sustainability, leadership, health, education, product development, innovation and technology\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The awards aim to amplify women\u2019s voices and contributions worldwide, and to \u201cawaken hearts and recapture dreams\u201d through collective empowerment, the press release issued today said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, Barech was selected<\/a> as a finalist for the category and was celebrated across Pakistan at the time, praised as a moment of national pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the press release, Barech was officially named a global winner on April 3 at the ceremony held at the Park Hyatt London River Thames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was awarded by the Zimbabwean-American Dr Tererai Trent and Britain\u2019s Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alishba\u2019s work has long centred on rewriting dominant narratives, particularly around Balochistan, the press release said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe is Pakistan\u2019s youngest novelist and memoirist, having written her debut novel at the age of 11, youngest memoirist at 14 and self-published author at 16,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said that her activism spanned work with Unicef Pakistan as a youth ambassador for mental health and polio eradication, and she was currently serving as a youth advisor to Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and was also a member of the National Youth Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe serves as a youth ambassador for the cricket franchise Quetta Gladiators,\u201d the press release said, adding that she was also the first female Pashtun from Balochistan to secure a merit scholarship to the John Locke Summer University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the press release, Alishba said: \u201cAs I\u2019ve said before, my mission has always been to rewrite the narratives that define us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis award is dedicated with all my heart to my parents, my teachers, my beloved province Balochistan, and my country Pakistan,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYesterday, when my country\u2019s name was called among global achievers, it was more than a personal milestone\u2014it was proof that stories of resilience and brilliance can rise from Nushki and Quetta, not just the headlines of conflict and militancy we\u2019ve grown used to,\u201d Barech said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is nothing more special than to bring a global award for your people,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1902081<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pakistani novelist Alishba Khan Barech was named the winner of the \u201cYoung Woman of the Year\u201d category at the Women Changing the World Awards 2025, a press release issued on Friday said. The Women Changing The World Awards is a global programme recognising the work of \u201cincredible women making a positive difference in the world across a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[15622,2824,105,15624,13287,36,15626,2165,13659,15625,15623],"class_list":["post-17131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-alishba-khan","tag-award","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-honor","tag-novelist","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistani-novelist-alishba-barech-wins-young-woman-of-the-year-at-women-changing-the-world-awards","tag-pakistani-talent","tag-prestige","tag-world-awar-2025","tag-young-women-of-the-year"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17133,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions\/17133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}