Maliha () is a feminine

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adjective singular "''malāḥah'' مَلَاحَة" which the plural variant form is "''malīḥ'' مَليح" or "''milāḥ'' مِلَاح", meaning "state of being gorgeous or graceful" or "state of beauty, grace, elegance". People with the name include: *

Maliha Ali Asghar Khan Maliha Ali Asghar Khan is a Pakistani politician from Mansehra District, belong to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf who had been member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from August 2018 until January 2023. She also served as a member of ...

, Pakistani politician * Maliha Hussein (born 1974), Pakistani cricketer *

Maliha Khatun Maliha Khatun (died 24 May 2002) was a Bangladeshi educationist, writer and social worker. She was awarded Begum Rokeya Padak in 2001 by the Government of Bangladesh. She served as the first woman principal of Dhaka Teachers' Training College ...

(died 2002), Bangladeshi educationist, writer and social worker *

Maliha Masood Maliha Masood is a Pakistani-American writer. She was born 1971 in Karachi, Pakistan. She moved to the United States in 1982 and grew up in Bellevue, Washington. Masood is a writer in creative nonfiction and the author of two travel memoirs, ''Za ...

(born 1972), American writer *

Maliha Zulfacar Maliha Zulfacar (born 1961) is an Afghan university professor and was the ambassador of Afghanistan to Germany from 2006 to 2010. Early life Zulfacar was born in 1961 in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Her father was a diplomat. After complet ...

(born 1961), Afghan university professor

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