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Maria Toorpakai Wazir was born on 22 November, 1990 in South Waziristan Agency, Pakistan. Discover Maria Toorpakai Wazir's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 33 years old?

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Age 33 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 22 November 1990
Birthday 22 November
Birthplace Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Nationality Pakistan

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Maria Toorpakai Wazir Height, Weight & Measurements

At 33 years old, Maria Toorpakai Wazir height is 167 cm and Weight 71 kg.

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Height 167 cm
Weight 71 kg
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.

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Maria Toorpakai Wazir Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Maria Toorpakai Wazir worth at the age of 33 years old? Maria Toorpakai Wazir’s income source is mostly from being a successful . She is from Pakistan. We have estimated Maria Toorpakai Wazir's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
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2013

In 2013, she gave a speech for Tedxteen called 'Squashing Extremism'.

2012

As of 2012 Toorpakai was ranked as Pakistan's top female squash player. In 2013, she was one of three Pakistani women in the top 200. and as of May 2016, she ranked 56th of female squash player in the world.

2011

Toorpakai decided it was safer for everyone if she found an opportunity to train internationally. She wrote to clubs, players, and schools and received no response; for three and a half years she "locked herself in a room in [her] house." She said she kept playing squash, hitting balls against her wall, until her neighbors complained one day. "I had to switch the wall. But I kept going". Eventually former professional squash player Jonathon Power replied and in 2011, she arrived to train in his academy in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Since 2011, Toorpakai has resided in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and has a home in Pakistan. She lives alone "but I don’t go out to party or drink, because I want to set a standard for the girls back home." In May 2016, she published her memoir, for which she was interviewed by Terry Gross on National Public Radio's Fresh Air.

2007

In August 2007, the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, gave her the Salaam Pakistan Award, alongside tennis player Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi and footballer Muhammad Essa.

In late August 2007, at almost 17, she lost a five-game semi-final in the POF Women's International Squash Players Association Wah Cantt Open at the Jahangir Khan Squash Complex in Wah Cantt, Pakistan, missing out on a maiden appearance in a WISPA World Tour final; she was nominated as "Young Player of the Year 2007". In 2009, she won third place in the World Junior Women's Squash Championship. In October 2012 she won the first annual Voice of Hope Award from Canadian First Lady Laureen Harper.

2006

After defeating boys in weightlifting at age 12, Toorpakai turned to squash and having to produce a birth certificate gave up pretending to be a boy. She became the first tribal Pakistani girl in international squash tournaments, turning professional in 2006. In August 2007, the President of Pakistan bestowed the Salaam Pakistan Award upon her. She was threatened by the Taliban and locked herself in her house for the following 3 years. In 2009, she won third place in the world junior women's squash championship. In 2011, she arrived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to train with Jonathon Power. As of May 2016 she is ranked 56th among female players in the world.

In 2006, Toorpakai turned professional. As a female athlete who played without a veil and in shorts, her actions were perceived as "un-Islamic". It was in 2007, she recalls, two years before Malala Yousafzai was shot, that the Taliban threatened to kill her and her family. The Pakistani national squash federation provided security by "snipers around my house, all the way to the squash court and on the squash court". She recalls "There was a bomb blast every day. [...] terrible things [...] happening all around me."

2002

In 2002, Toorpakai's father put her into weightlifting in Peshawar to "channel her negative energies" and introduced her with the name Genghis Khan. She trained and competed as a boy with the explicit support of her father. At age 12 she won a junior championship in Lahore, and managed to keep her clothes on for the mandatory weighing, because her brother refused to take off his clothes and created a protective precedent. She became captivated by squash after observing it, where she was weightlifting, and saw it as her next challenge. Her father took her to a squash academy and after needing to produce a birth certificate, gave up pretending that she was a boy. The truth about her gender leaked out, and she had neither training partners nor coach and trained by herself for hours. She was harassed and bullied by other players, boys and men.

1990

Maria Toorpakai Wazir (Pashto: ماريه تورپېکۍ وزيره ‎; Urdu: ماریہ تورپیکئی وزیر ‎; born November 22, 1990 in South Waziristan, FATA) is a professional Pakistani squash player. She dressed like a boy for the first 16 years of her life in order to participate in competitive sports as a Muslim girl, using the name Genghis Khan, fully supported by her Muslim parents.

Maria Toorpakai was born on November 22, 1990 in South Waziristan, a tribal region in northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan. Her parents are teachers who are committed to women's rights despite the presence of the Taliban in the region. She credits her father's time spent with and learning from hippies visiting the area in his youth for his autodidactic education and supportive attitude toward women's education, which included education of her mother. Her father's name is Shamsul Qayum Wazir, also spelled Shamsul Qayyum Wazir. Her sister, Aisha Gulalai a Pakistani politician working to empower women in tribal areas.