X, literally "corn flower", is the female protagonist of a popular Pashtun Romeo-and-Juliet-like folktale, where the two characters fall in love in school. The two lovers, X and Musa Khan, create a war between their respective tribes. X, by quoting the Qura'an, shows how comical this war was, to her elders - this leads to ceasing of the war, and the subsequent marriage of X and Khan. Give X?
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=> Gul Makai - also the pseudonym Malala Yousafzai used in her BBC "diaries". Malala herself is named after Malalai of Maiwand, a national folk hero in the Battle of Maiwand.
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