Malalai of Maiwand
Malalai of Maiwand ( د ميوند ملالۍ ), also known as Malala meaning is a national folk hero of Afghanistan who rallied local fighters against the British troops at the 1880 Battle of Maiwand . She fought alongside Ayub Khan and was responsible for the Afghan victory at the Battle of Maiwand on 27 July 1880, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War . She is also known as "The Afghan Jeanne D'Arc " and as "The Afghan Molly Pitcher " to the Western world. There are many schools, hospitals, and other institutions named after her in Afghanistan. Her story is told in the Afghan school text books. The Pakistani women's-rights activist Malala Yousafzai and Afghan activist-politician Malalai Joya are named after Malalai of Maiwand. Malalai was born in 1861 in the village of Khig, about 3 miles southwest of Maiwand in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.During the late 1880s, for the second time, Afghanistan was occupied b