Begum Zaffar Ali, née Malka Begum, was an Indian women's liberation activist, legislator and Deputy Director of Schools in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. She was associated with the activities of the All India Women’s Conference, but a chance meeting with Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his sister, Fatima Jinnah, influenced her and she left the conference to concentrate her efforts in women's liberation movements in the pre-independent India.