Maria Toorpakai Wazir (Pashto: ماريه تورپېکۍ وزيره; Urdu: ماریہ تورپیکئی وزیر; born November 22, 1990, in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) is a professional Pakistani squash player.

[4] At the age of 26, she was the highest ranked female squash player in Pakistan, and was appointed to the IOC Women in Sport Commission.

[5] Maria Toorpakai was born on November 22, 1990, in Domel, Bannu, a tribal region in northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan.

[8] Her sister, Aisha Gulalai, is a Pakistani politician working to empower women in tribal areas.

[9] As a child, Toorpakai loved to play outside, even though girls are not allowed to go outside the house in the highly conservative tribal area.

"[8] In 2002, Toorpakai's father put her into weightlifting in Peshawar to "channel her negative energies" and introduced her with the name Genghis Khan.

[1][6][10] 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."

[8] Eventually, former professional squash player Jonathon Power replied, and in 2011, she arrived to train in his academy in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

[5] Upon her appointment, the president of the World Squash Federation, Jaques Fontaine said "Every player has a journey, but very occasionally there is one that is very special and transcends her sport.

[11] 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;[13] she was nominated as "Young Player of the Year 2007".

[10][14] Since 2017, she lives in Pakistan alone "but I don't go out to party or drink, because I want to set a standard for the girls back home.