Riffat Akbar Swati is a former member of the provincial assembly from Mansehra District, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[1]
She was born on 20 October 1946 into a Kashmiri Rajput[citation needed] family. They moved to Abbottabad after partition of India in 1947.[citation needed].
She married into a Swati family of Mansehra[citation needed].
Riffat Akbar's credit edit
It goes to Riffat Akbar Swati's credit that she introduced Dr.Syed Mehboob renowned research scholar, writer and columnist to Hindko circle and persuaded him to write in Hindko. Dr. Syed Mehboob is a multilingual writer and writes in English, Urdu, Hindko and Sindhi languages. His Hindko articles published in monthly Farogh " Peshawar.