Pakistan has been represented in the Nobel Prize community through a few notable laureates. The most prominent is Malala Yousafzai, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her advocacy of the right of girls to receive an education, particularly in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the Taliban had prohibited girls from attending school.
Another notable figure is Abdul Salam, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics