KARACHI: Malala Yousufzai, the activist for girls’ education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate from Pakistan, has topped the list of most searched Pakistanis on Wikipedia during 2017 — second year in a row.

According to a report by the Pakistan affiliate of The Wikimedia Foundation, Malala’s Wikipedia page had over 2.5 million views the previous year.

The list, which tabulates Wikipedia searches of Pakistani personalities, is based on searches carried out from Jan. 1 to Dec.20, 2017.

Other personalities who were among 25 most searched Pakistanis on Wikipedia in 2017 included politicians, social workers and people from the entertainment industry. Among the most searched are also those who are no more in this world.

Mahira Khan, the actor who has been adding one accolade after the other to her name over the past few years, was the second most searched Pakistani on Wiki-pedia with over 2 million views.

The page of the father of the nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, came on third position with over 1.3 million views. On fourth position came the page of Saba Qamar, an actor, with 910,102 views.

Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan’s page with fifth position attracted 884,206 views and ousted prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Nawaz Sharif’s followed it on sixth position with 867,548 views.

Actor Fawad Khan came on seventh position with 860,213 page views.

On eighth position, the page of legendary Pakistani musician and singer late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan attracted 838,527 people.

Former prime minister and assassinated chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir Bhutto’s page was viewed by 794,442 times.

The page of iconic social worker late Abdul Sattar Edhi had 664,107 views.

In descending order, following are the other most search Pakistanis on Wikipedia: Actors Sajal Ali (643,528 page views), Mawra Hocane (601,239), Imran Abbas (380,358), Sanam Saeed (251,679), Veena Malik (242,998), Mehwish Hayat (238,832), Humayun Saeed (229,505), Adnan Siddiqui (227,398), musician and singer Atif Aslam (608,525), Ali Zafar (363,534), singer-turned-evangelist late Junaid Jamshed (299,878), legendary singer and actor late Noor Jehan (277,287), Nazia Hassan (264,801), legendary singer late Mehdi Hasan (203,460), and slain social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch (455,651).

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