Malala Yousafzai was an orphan.
Malala Yousafzai . Considering Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role-models , she was particularly inspired by her father 's thoughts and humanitarian work . Ziauddin Yousafzai ( born 1969 ) is a Pakistani diplomat best known as the father of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai , a young woman who protested against the Taliban for the education rights of girls , especially for Pakistani girls .