Shabana (dancer)

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}

{{Short description|Pakistani dancer and singer}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Shabana

| death_date = 2 January 2009

| death_place = Mingora

| death_cause = Killed by Taliban

| nationality = Pakistani

}}

Shabana (Urdu/Pashto:شبانه) was a Pakistani singer and dancer from Mingora, Swat, Pakistan. She was shot and killed by the Pakistani Taliban of Swat in January 2009 at Mingora.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/4217690/Taliban-underlines-its-growing-power-with-killing-of-dancing-girl-in-Pakistan.html Taliban underlines its growing power with killing of 'dancing girl' in Pakistan ]{{cite news |title=In Pakistan, Radio Amplifies Terror of Taliban |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/world/asia/25swat.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |accessdate=21 October 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 January 2009 |author=Richard A. Oppel Jr. |author2=Pir Zubair Shah}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20121105070057/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-22/pakistan/28167216_1_music-industry-peshawar-singers Dying notes: Music goes out of Peshawar as artists face militants’ ire][https://archive.today/20130126071134/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-18/india/31206938_1_singers-music-and-musicians-shiraz-uppal Faith & fear silence Pakistan's singers]{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20120129193729/http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/talibanistan-talibs-home Talibanistan: The Talibs at Home]}}[http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/15/pashtun-singing-star-ghazala-javed-why-was-she-killed.html Pashtun Singing Star Ghazala Javed: Why Was She Killed?][http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/pakistan-mingora-dancing-taliban-pashtun-fazlullah Dancing Girls of the Swat Valley][http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\07\18\story_18-7-2009_pg7_51 Dancing girls fear return to Swat]